
Conversationalists
Pontypool takes place in a small-town Ontario radio station while a language-borne infection spreads outside. Its director insisted the victims are not zombies but conversationalists. The approach was inspired by Orson Welles's War of the Worlds broadcast.1
- not speaking English
- stripping a word of its meaning
Ол алғаш қашан пайда болды?
Released 2008
Дереккөздер не дейді
Stage one: the victim gets stuck repeating a word, often a term of endearment1
Stage two: speech becomes scrambled; stage three: the victim tries to chew through another person's mouth1
Speaking French or Armenian protects, because only English is infected1
Telling a victim that kill now means kiss makes her symptoms subside1
News broadcasts about the quarantine spread the infection further1
Based on Tony Burgess's 1995 novel Pontypool Changes Everything and also produced as a radio play1
Дереккөздер
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