The Return Of “PontyPool“… In “Pontypool Changes”

While perusing the internet the other day I came across Dread Central with them displaying the sales art for the upcoming sequel to (in my opinion) the very cool “Pontypool“. You remember that flick, right? Where sound waves from speech patterns create zombie-like people hell bent on fucking your shit up and generally giving you a bad day.

Adapted from the book “Pontypool Changes Everything”, by Tom Burgess (Burgess also wrote the screenplay) and directed by Bruce McDonald we follow the hard drinking and very opinionated radio DJ Grant Mazzy (Stephen McHattie) as he reports the odd goings on in the far off town Canadian town of Pontypool where he has been, shall we say, demoted too.

The entire movie playing out pretty much inside the radio station with all the information of what is going on outside it’s walls coming from their eye-in-the-sky-traffic-guy Ken Loney (Rick Roberts) as he reports in by cellphone.

“Pontypool” is a nice departure from an overly crowded field of mostly bad zombie films that seem to plague the airwaves and DVD shelves.

From what I have able to gather, “Pontypool Changes”, the upcoming sequel, looks to follow more of the Burgess novel then the first film. The film is supposedly set for release in 2013.

On a strange side note, there actually happens to be a town called Pontypool in Canada, Ontario. Might have to be on the list of locals to see…lol