https://vo.rs/tags/single-location/Latest from the Single Location desk at vo.rs.Hugo -- gohugo.ioenThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.Sat, 28 Jun 2025 09:00:00 +0000https://vo.rs/screen/pontypool-the-horror-film-built-from-language/<p>Most zombie films are about bodies. <em>Pontypool</em> is about words. Bruce McDonald&rsquo;s 2008 Canadian oddity stages an entire apocalypse inside a small-town radio station, never leaves the building, barely shows you a single infected person, and manages to be one of the most genuinely original horror films of its century — because the thing eating the town is not a virus in the blood. It is a virus in the language. Certain English words, once understood, infect the speaker, and the infected can only try to purge the corrupted word by repeating it, mangling it, and killing to escape it.</p>Sat, 28 Jun 2025 09:00:00 +0000https://vo.rs/screen/the-one-location-thriller-as-a-budget-superpower/<p>Give a young filmmaker a million pounds and they will spread it thin across a dozen locations, a chase, a crowd scene and a climax that looks like a cheaper version of something you have already seen. Give them a tenth of that and a single room, and something strange happens: the film gets <em>better</em>. The one-location thriller is the great equaliser of genre cinema, the form where a shortage of money stops being a handicap and turns into a weapon. Lock your story inside four walls and every limitation you were dreading becomes a discipline that sharpens the work. It is the closest thing the low-budget filmmaker has to a superpower, and the best of these films embarrass productions that cost a hundred times as much.</p>Fri, 05 Apr 2024 13:00:00 +0000