• Summary: 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 the small town of Pontypool 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. Bizarre 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. So... 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 being caused by 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? (IFC Films) Expand
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 11
  2. Negative: 0 out of 11
  1. Think of this witty, economically gory little tour de force as "28 Days Later" written by linguist Noam Chomsky.
  2. A horror flick that's all talk and (almost) no action? The risk pays off better than you'd think.
  3. Reviewed by: Stephen Farber
    50
    Efficient enough to attract a cult audience.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 6
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 6
  3. Negative: 0 out of 6
  1. MartinS.
    10
    was hooked on this from start to finish, nothing to what I expected and Stephen McHattie is superb in it also.
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  2. dragonpenchant
    9
    This movie is a diamond in the rough. smart and funny and equal doses, all the while keeping you glued to the edge of your seat.
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  3. 8
    I am a horror, zombie and sci-fi fan and this satisfies all of the above with originality and great tension. The acting and directing are very good in this movie. The concept is really clever as well. There is one moment near the end that makes this movie an 8 and not a 10. MAYBE CONSIDERED A SPOILER: The DJ finally figures out what to do and right in the middle of building this moment up to a crescendo the writer/ director has him go into a preachy diatribe about war. It completely ruins the turning point of the story. It has nothing to do with what the characters are going through and is clearly the preachy voice of the filmmaker intruding in on the story and tension. Otherwise the movie hooked me and kept me guessing with great tension. I really hated that they ruined that with dialogue about men wanting war. In the very very end we are left to an ambiguous fonal moment that we think we know the answer to. I think we have had enough endings in films like that for a while I would have liked to see a clever execution of the very end they hinted at. of course filming this last moment would have probably cost as much as the whole movie so i can understand them leaving it to the imagination. Expand
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