Tony Burgess
1) Pontypool
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Language
English
Description
In the sleepy town of Pontypool, Ontario, no one is safe from an epidemic so devastating it will leave you literally speechless.
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English
Description
Three celebrated books - all of which harbour a twisted ambition to physically alter your imagination - together for the first time.'The Hellmouths of Bewdley' is a series of 16 stories hiding in a novel about a small town in Ontario's cottage country. Navigating through drunk and dead men, prisons and suicides and mad doctors, these short stories act as a halfway house for literary delinquents.'Pontypool Changes Everything' is the terrifying story...
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English
Description
The compelling, terrifying story of a devastating virus. Have you ever imagined what it would be like to kill someone? Wondered, in your darkest secret thoughts, about the taste of human flesh? What if you woke up and began your morning by devoting the rest of your life to a murderous rampage, a never-ending cannibalistic spree? And what if you were only one of thousands who shared the same compulsion? Well, today's your lucky day: in fact, by this...
4) Ravenna Gets
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Language
English
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From the author of Pontypool Changes Everything, Ravenna Gets is a new collection of "wheeled" stories that continue the author's exploration of "apocalypse action." In a single convulsion of homicide, the population of Ravenna tries to erase the population of Collingwood. The innocent, standing in their living rooms, cooking in their kitchens, and playing in their yards, are simply checked off by hunting rises or crossed out by farmers' tools. There...
5) Idaho Winter
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Language
English
Description
Idaho Winter is a boy who, through no fault of his own, is loathed by everyone in his town. His father feeds him roadkill for breakfast, the crossing guard steers cars toward him as he crosses the road, and parents encourage their children to plot against him. That is, until he meets a young girl named Madison who empathizes with his suffering. But when Madison is attacked by dogs meant to harm Idaho, Idaho gets up and runs home, changing the course...
Author
Language
English
Description
Three celebrated books - all of which harbour a twisted ambition to physically alter your imagination - together for the first time.
The Hellmouths of Bewdley is a series of 16 stories hiding in a novel about a small town in Ontario's cottage country. Navigating through drunk and dead men, prisons and suicides and mad doctors, these short stories act as a halfway house for literary delinquents.
Pontypool Changes Everything is the terrifying story...
7) Pontypool
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Shock jock Grant Mazzy has been kicked off the airwaves and now works at a small-town morning show. Another mundane day on the job quickly turns deadly when reports pile in of people developing strange speech patterns and evoking brutal acts of violence. Before long, Mazzy discovers that the behavior is actually a deadly virus being spread through language. Now, he has to decide to stay on the air in the hopes of being rescued, or provide the virus...
9) Cult Hero
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Language
English
Description
Manager-summoning control freak Kallie Jones attempts to rescue her husband from a "wellness center" with the help of a washed-up expert, Cult Buster.
11) Spaceship Earth
Publisher
Neon
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A true, stranger–than–fiction, adventure of eight visionaries who in 1991 spent 2 years quarantined inside of a self–engineered biodome called BIOSPHERE 2. The experiment was a phenomenon, chronicling daily existence in the face of life threatening ecological disaster. The bizarre story is both a cautionary tale and a hopeful lesson of how a small group of dreamers could reimagine a new world.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Two disparate young women working for a company that conducts euthanasia are dispatched to a remote estate to perform a custom assisted-suicide ritual, but unwittingly summon the wraiths of a Death Cult that once inhabited the property.
13) Dreamland
Publisher
Uncork'd Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
On the night of the strangest wedding in cinema history, a grotesque gang boss hires a stone cold killer to bring him the finger of a fading, drug-addicted jazz legend.
Publisher
Carlton International Media Ltd
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Lord Parker's 'oliday: The solar dish that provides Monte Bianco with electricity falls in a storm and lands with its reflector aimed at the town. If it can't be moved before sunrise, Monte Bianco will burn down. Ricochet: The staff of an orbiting pirate television station call for help when the explosion of a missile damages the station. Give or take a million: While International Rescue helps raise money for the Coralville Children's Hospital's...
