Bruce McDonald, director of such films as Hard Core Logo, Highway 61 and the Tracey Fragments has now made one of the scariest movies ever. At least he hopes it's scary, I haven't seen it - but the premiere is coming to the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival. The film is called Pontypool and is based on Tony Bugess's book Pontypool Changes Everything and the description, via IMDB reads something like "The flick is set in a radio station in Pontypool where one day the morning team starts taking reports of extreme, bloody incidents of violence occurring in town. As the story unfolds, the radio staff soon realizes the violence that is ripping society apart is due to a virus being spread through the English language. That in turn poses a problem for a yappy radio jock and his staff holed up in the broadcast booth housed in the basement of the town's abandoned church as a slaughter rages beyond its walls."If you watch the clip below Bruce talks about the film, as well as arts subsidies and tells you why and how Hard Core Logo will become a trilogy.
For Showtimes and further info on Pontypool visit http://tiff08.ca/filmsandschedules/films/pontypool
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