Pontypool (2009) on Netflix
Grant Mazzy drives through a snowstorm to his basement radio station in Pontypool, Ontario. His shock jock style irritates station manager Sydney Briar. Then a reporter calls with news of a riot.
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Plot summary
Grant Mazzy hosts a talk radio show from a basement studio in Pontypool, Ontario, where station manager Sydney Briar and technical assistant Laurel-Ann Drummond work with him. On his way in through a snowstorm he pulls over, and a woman pounds on his car window, repeating a word he cannot make out. During the broadcast, helicopter reporter Ken Loney calls in with word of a disturbance at the office of Dr. Mendez that left a number of people dead. The station tries to confirm what Loney said, but the witnesses who might back him up are cut off before they reach the air, and the BBC contacts the station about the story. Loney calls again from a grain silo, describing people trying to eat one another or themselves.
Cast
- Rachel Burnsas Colleen (Daud)
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Pontypool (2009)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Tony Burgess adapted his own novel Pontypool Changes Everything for the screen himself, and according to director Bruce McDonald the writer hammered the script out in 48 hours.
- Orson Welles' notorious radio broadcast of The War of the Worlds shaped the whole approach, McDonald has said, and the production went one step further: Pontypool was made as a motion picture and as a radio play at the same time.
SPOILER
The closing scene with Grant and Sydney was not always a post-credits sequence. McDonald has said it originally sat before the credits, but audiences at early screenings found that ending too confusing, so it was moved to after them.
