10 films that trace the evolution of the cinematic zombie first published by BFI in October 2022 Includes capsules of: White Zombie, I Walked With A Zombie, Night of the Living Dead, Nightmare City, The Return of the Living Dead, Braindead, Fido, Colin, Pontypool, One Cut of the Dead Zombies are often unhurried in pace,…
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…
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…