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Title: From our Canadian Friends: Pontypool and Suck Post by: Johny Cee on April 29, 2011, 08:21:29 AM Two independent Canadian horror movies filling time on a couple of the movie stations that I really enjoyed, for what they were.
Pontypool - A pseudo-zombie movie, mostly set in a Talk Radio studio in a small town in Ontario. Interesting premise (language virus!) and good performances. Suck - A vampire-musical comedy/horror film. Doesn't that premise sound shitty? Follows a small-time shitty alternative rock band at small-time gigs in Eastern Canada and New York, when one of the band members becomes a vampire. Lots of great cameos... Dave Foley, Iggy Pop, Henry Rollins, Alice Cooper, Moby (who is awesome as "the frontman for the biggest band in Buffalo"), the guitarist from Rush as a crazy US border guard. The ending 20 minutes kind of falls down a bit, but it was highly entertaining. Title: Re: From our Canadian Friends: Pontypool and Suck Post by: Surlyboi on April 30, 2011, 01:18:30 PM Pontypool was ridiculously good for the low-budget thing it was. And the premise was cool as hell.
Title: Re: From our Canadian Friends: Pontypool and Suck Post by: Tannhauser on May 04, 2011, 04:39:02 PM As a huge Rush fan, this news is relevant to my interests.
Title: Re: From our Canadian Friends: Pontypool and Suck Post by: pxib on May 06, 2012, 08:52:12 PM Saw Pontypool. Really liked it.
I'm going to track down and read the novel, and frankly I'd love to see somebody do it as a stage play. There aren't enough horror stage plays, and this has the philosophical chops to interest the theater-going crowd. |