Pontypool
Shut up or die.
Pontypool (2009)
Timing:
1:37 (97 min)
6.5/10
590
590
5.96/10
2746
2746
6.5/10
38000
38000
Country
Production
Genre
Horror, Mystery, Science Fiction
Budget
$1 500 000
Revenue
$32 118
Director
Actors
Stephen McHattie, Lisa Houle, Georgina Reilly, Hrant Alianak, Rick Roberts, Daniel Fathers, Beatriz Yuste, Boyd Banks, Hannah Fleming, Laura Nordin
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Producer
Jeffrey Coghlan, Ambrose Roche, J. Miles Dale, Henry Cole, Jasper Graham, Isabella Smejda
Operator
Mirosław Baszak
Composer
Artist
Audition
Editing
Jeremiah Munce
All team (98)
All team (98)
Short description
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.
What's left behind the scenes
- “Pontypool” was produced both as a film and as a radio play. Both versions were heavily influenced by Orson Welles’ 1930s radio adaptation of “The War of the Worlds” (1915-1980).
- Tony Burgess, the screenwriter and author of the 1995 novel “Pontypool Changes Everything” on which the film is based, appears on screen in a small role as the lead singer of Lawrence and the Arabians. He is credited as “Tony (Lawrence).”
- One scene in the film features the book "Snow Crash" (1992) by American science fiction writer Neal Stephenson, about a virus capable of having a detrimental effect on people in digital reality and in biological forms.
- "Pontypool" was realized as both a film and a radio play. Both versions were greatly influenced by Orson Welles' 1930s radio adaptation of "The War of the Worlds".
- Tony Burgess, the screenwriter and author of the 1995 novel "Pontypool Changes Everything," appears on screen in a small role as the lead singer of the band Lawrence and the Arabians.
- "Pontypool" was staged both as a film and as a radio play. Both versions were greatly influenced by Orson Welles' 1930s radio adaptation of "The War of the Worlds."
- Tony Burgess, the screenwriter and author of the 1995 novel "Pontypool Changes Everything," appears on screen in a small role as the lead singer of the band Lawrence and the Arabians.
- One scene in the film shows the book "Snow Crash" (1992) by American science fiction writer Neal Stephenson, about a virus capable of having a detrimental effect on people in digital reality and in biological forms.
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