Dreamland first published by Little White Lies, as entry 101 of my Cinema Psychotronicum column “We’re in a different world,” says a grizzled hitman (Stephen McHattie) of his surroundings near the end of Dreamland. He is not wrong, and the clue is in the title. For Bruce McDonald’s film falls into a body of works…
Hellions first published by TheHorrorShow “I understand you may be feeling a wide range of emotions right now – and that’s very normal.” We may be wondering, though, just how normal it is that 17-year-old goth Dora Vogel (Chloe Rose), still in shock after hearing from her doctor (Rossif Sutherland) that she is four weeks pregnant,…
Pontypool first published by Film4 Synopsis: In parochial Pontypool, a shock jock probes, prods and provokes the end of the world (as we know it). Cult Canadian filmmaker Bruce McDonald (Roadkill, Highway 61, The Tracey Fragments) directs this reality-warping horror. Review: “Pontypool. Pontypool. Pantypool. Pont du Flaque. What does it mean?” If, as William S Burroughs liked to assert, language…