It's when our grasping for digestible concepts, clear causality, or anything resembling resolution is as thwarted as the characters' struggle to articulate or take action, that we're in the best position to absorb Pontypool's full impact.

This low-budget picture is a little too claustrophobic, and it grows tedious. The ominous, overbearing musical score tries but fails to jack up the tension.

An original take on genre movies of its kind.

Pretty surprising that it took so long for someone to deliver a War of the Worlds-esque take on a zombie apocalypse, which succeeds fully thanks to Stephen McHattie.