Your choice is simple-minded , according to one new flick ’s tagline : “ exclude up or cash in one’s chips . ” Pontypool , from cult music director Bruce McDonald ( Roadkill ) , is about a radio DJ that discovers the English linguistic process has picked up a virus that is rive the metropolis inside out with folly . finally the rabidity turn everyone into “ conversationalists , ” as McDonald puts it . How can you tell if your speech is infect ? McDonald explains :
“ There are three leg to this to this computer virus . The first phase is you might get down to repeat a Christian Bible . Something catch stuck . And usually it ’s words that are terms of endearment like steady or dear . The second stagecoach is your lyric becomes scrambled and you ca n’t express yourself properly . The third stage you become so distraught at your condition that the only way out of the state of affairs you sense , as an infected person , is to try and chew your way through the sassing of another mortal . ”
McDonald live on to describe the infected as extremely gabby deranged multitude . The pic is based on the Tony Burgess ’ novel Pontypool Changes Everything and will be screened at the Toronto Film Festival . Maple Pictures will handle all Canadian dispersion . [ Shock Till You Drop andMovie Web ]
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