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Pontypool

Shut up or die.

6.5(744)20091h 36m3

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.

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Status
Released
Budget
$1.5M
Box office
$32K
Language
Armenian
  • based on novel or book
  • winter
  • radio station
  • disc jockey
  • survival
  • zombie
  • fear
  • ontario, canada
  • radio broadcast
  • talk radio
  • zombie apocalypse
  • virus

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Behind the camera

Produced in

Canada

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • PremiereSouth by Southwest Film Festival14 Mar 2009
    • Theatrical (limited)NRNew York City, New York29 May 2009
    • PremiereIndie Memphis Film Festival10 Oct 2009
    • PhysicalDVD26 Jan 2010
  • United KingdomGB

    • PremiereEdinburgh International Film Festival26 Jun 2009
    • Theatrical1516 Oct 2009
  • CanadaCA

    • PremiereToronto International Film Festival6 Sept 2008
    • PremiereEdmonton International Film Festival26 Sept 2008
    • Theatrical14AToronto6 Mar 2009
    • PhysicalDVD21 Jul 2009
  • BrazilBR

    • PhysicalDVD25 Jan 2010
  • FranceFR

    • PremiereL'Étrange Festival5 Sept 2010
    • PhysicalDVD3 Nov 2010
  • GermanyDE

    • PremiereOldenburg International Film Festival19 Sept 2009
    • PhysicalDVD13 Nov 2009
  • HungaryHU

    • Digital / OTT1612 Nov 2009
  • PolandPL

    • Digital / OTT1825 Jul 2009

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Pontypool was released on 6 March 2009.

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    Oldnewbie

    7/11/2017

    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 invaded Grovers Mill, N…

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