Pontypool
Shut up or die.
When disc jockey Grant Mazzy reports to his basement radio station in the Canadian town of Pontypool, he thinks it's just another day at work. But when he hears reports of a virus that turns people into zombies, Mazzy barricades himself in the radio booth and tries to figure out a way to warn his listeners about the virus and its unlikely mode of transmission.
- 6.4
- 2009
- Released
- 1h 37m
Stephen McHattie
Grant Mazzy
Lisa Houle
Sydney Briar
Georgina Reilly
Laurel-Ann Drummond
Hrant Alianak
Dr. Mendez
Rick Roberts
Ken Loney (voice)
Daniel Fathers
Nigel Healing
Beatriz Yuste
Nancy Freethy
Boyd Banks
Jay (Osama)
Hannah Fleming
Maureen (Farraj)
Rachel Burns
Colleen (Daud)
Louis Negin
Conversationalist
Diane Gordon
Conversationalist
Daniel Junghuan Park
Conversationalist![Pontypool (2008) Original Trailer [FHD]](https://img.youtube.com/vi/0W6y6pncMJQ/hqdefault.jpg)
Released
en
$1,500,000.00
$32,000.00
- #based on novel or book
- #winter
- #radio station
- #disc jockey
- #survival
- #zombie
- #fear
- #ontario, canada
- #radio broadcast
- #talk radio
- #zombie apocalypse
- #virus
- #trapped in building
Reviews
Upon watching this film for a second time I realized just how much it reminded me of the famous "War of the Worlds" radio broadcast Orson Welles aired in 1939. With just the medium of radio he successfully created an atmosphere of panic so real people listening (who had not caught the beginning where it stated that the following was a radio drama) fled their homes thinking aliens from Mars had inv