In these days when it is not understood that cinema is an entertaining, commercial monotheism as well as an art in the making, and originality is starting to disappear, whether in domestic or foreign cinema, we either wait for festivals or DVDs to see a film that comes with a ‘genuinely original idea’. The situation is even more worrying when it comes to a genre film. These thoughts, which I refer to the repetitive zombie and horror cinema, are inadequate in the film of deadly words, Pontypool (2009), where Canadian director Bruce McDonald and Tony Burgess, who adapted the script from his own novel, dismantle the structure of the Englishness that has permeated the global culture, can be considered as one of the original genre films, like those of George A. Romero, that strives to create thought and meaning rather than entertainment.
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