When Chris isn’t working on a new article or exploring the best nature spots nearby, he's gotten into making TikTok edits. While he works on other personal projects, he has turned his attention to ...
Bruce McDonald, director of the new Canadian thriller Pontypool, says that although he thinks fondly of the undead, “We realized our monsters were technically not zombies”. Still, the film, which ...
The newest adaptation of H.G. Wells’ War of the Worlds has been met with scathing reviews from critics and outright hostility from audiences. One of the most adapted works of science fiction, Wells’ ...
"Pontypool" Movie Review-- "Pontypool" is "Dawn of the Dead," as rewritten by an eccentric linguistics professor and staged by Orson Welles' old Mercury Theatre radio show -- if you can wrap your mind ...
After 2008's fiercely unique horror Pontypool became a cult success, many fans hoped that filmmaker Bruce McDonald would get to produce a planned sequel, Pontypool Changes. Yet considering the first ...
Horror needs novelty: familiarity saps terror. Yet film-makers wheel out the same old zombies, slashers, ghosts and monsters time and again to shiver our jaded ...
EDITOR’S NOTE: This review was originally published as part of indieWIRE’s coverage of the 2009 SXSW Film Festival. I’m in the minority thinking that Bruce McDonald’s “The Tracey Fragments” made for ...