Plot
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.
Cast
as Grant Mazzy
as Sydney Briar
as Laurel-Ann Drummond
as Dr. Mendez
as Ken Loney (voice)
as Nigel Healing
as Nancy Freethy
as Jay (Osama)
as Maureen (Farraj)
as Spooky Woman
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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 in…