At the beginning of this week, Mr. Ammon let you all know that the Canadian “rampaging virus” horror called PONTYPOOL had just been picked up for distribution by Maple Pictures. And now today we already have a bunch of new pics from the flick. You can see one up top, one below, and click here to view the rest.
These are my two favorite images of the bunch. They both just complement the plot so perfectly, which has just been revealed in its entirety: Shock jock Grant Mazzy has, once again, been kicked-off the Big City airwaves and now the only job he can get is the early morning show at CLSY Radio in Pontypool Ontario, which broadcasts from the basement of the small town’s only church.
What begins as another boring day of school bus cancellations, due to yet another massive snow storm, quickly turns deadly when reports start piling in of people developing strange speech patterns and evoking horrendous acts of violence. But there’s nothing coming in on the news wires. Is this really happening?
Before long, Grant and the small staff at CLSY find themselves trapped in the radio station as they discover that this insane behavior taking over the town is actually a deadly virus being spread through the English language itself.
Do they stay on the air in the hopes of being rescued or, are they in fact providing the virus with its ultimate leap over the airwaves and into the world?
It’s sort of like a different version of THE HAPPENING, right? Only instead of deadly air, we’re getting deadly words? I hope director Bruce McDonald and Tony Burgess have a cool method for handling this weird scenario because it could work out really nice or really bad. I, for one, am leaning towards the nice side.
PONTYPOOL stars Stephen McHattie, Lisa Houle, and Georgina Reilly. It’s looking to release some time in 2009.
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