https://vo.rs/tags/zombie/Latest from the Zombie 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 +0000