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Back in November of last year, I blogged about one of unpredictable Canadian indie director Bruce McDonald’s newest efforts, a foray into horror cinema called Pontypool. The trailer I linked at the tail of that posting basically emphasized generic “horror” bump-in-the-night kinda stuff, but considering it’s Bruce McD. — a quirky filmmaker if there ever was one — I figured it was probably a tad misleading.

My gut reaction seems to have been on target as a newer preview promoting the film’s impending release seems to play up more of the “semiotic”/language-driven side of the work, though not in a pretentious or off-putting way. The movie’s take on the “zombiefication” of people — via a virus that’s seemingly spread by the English language! — carries an added punch considering that the protagonist is a yapping, Pontypool-based radio DJ covering the mass reports of escalating carnage. As a result, he is, quite possibly, spreading the “disease” simply by doing his job.

Take a look at the new theatrical trailer here. Pontypool is slated to open on March 6 in limited release.

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