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00:00In the small Canadian town of Pontypool, Ontario,
00:03radio host Grant Mazze is driving to work,
00:05pushing through snow in a blizzard.
00:07At the same time he's talking on the phone with a colleague,
00:10Grant is very irritated and even threatens to fire the guy,
00:13then simply tosses the phone aside.
00:15But the colleague keeps calling,
00:16forcing Grant to pull over to find his gadget.
00:19Suddenly an unfamiliar woman taps on his window
00:22shouting some incoherent words.
00:24Grant turns away for a second,
00:25and when he decides to open the window,
00:27the woman on the roadside is already gone.
00:29The man is surprised by the incident,
00:31but soon brushes it off,
00:32especially since he's already arriving at his radio station.
00:35There, Grant is greeted by his colleague, Laurel Anne,
00:38who is already sitting at the console
00:40preparing to take calls
00:41while also searching for news to cover on air.
00:44The girl asks him to skip the silly jokes,
00:46and Grant heads to his workstation.
00:48He greets Pontypool and talks about the terrible weather
00:50when producer Sydney Breyer,
00:52who diligently ensures the host doesn't chatter too much,
00:55enters.
00:56Grant plays a song for the listeners,
00:58then answers a call from reporter Ken Loney,
01:00who's reporting on the snowstorm
01:02he's watching from his helicopter.
01:04Next on the air is a constable
01:06involved in an operation to destroy illegal cannabis crops.
01:09Grant spins the story,
01:11but Sydney asks him not to exaggerate and cuts him off.
01:14A scuffle ensues between them
01:16as she doesn't support his imaginative flair.
01:18Grant is outraged by the limitation
01:20on his freedom of speech.
01:22Eventually, the two reach an agreement,
01:24and Grant switches to innocuous news about a missing cat.
01:27He suddenly remembers the woman he saw on the bridge.
01:30He describes the situation
01:31and asks if he should have called 911.
01:34Strangely, no listeners are calling in,
01:36though they usually respond immediately to questions.
01:39Laurel Anne intercepts code 48,
01:41which signals a hostage situation.
01:44She tunes into the police frequency,
01:46but there's no confirmation.
01:47Sydney asks her not to inform Grant yet,
01:49as he is distracted by a man discussing urgent calls.
01:53Suddenly, the host begins talking
01:55about a couple of criminals who have taken hostages
01:57and are holed up in a truck.
01:59Sydney tries to steer the conversation,
02:01but it only gets worse.
02:03Grant starts talking about the end of the fishing season
02:05when both the police and fishermen drink too much alcohol.
02:09Sydney, exasperated, listens to Grant
02:11while he merely laughs at the overly serious woman.
02:14The producer suddenly reveals a secret.
02:16Their journalist, Ken,
02:18who claims to be watching the weather from a helicopter,
02:20is actually sitting on a hill,
02:22but people like to think he's risking himself for them.
02:25Later, Sydney admits she spoke with the constable
02:27and he seemed frightened.
02:29Then a call comes in from Ken,
02:30reporting possible unrest at Dr. Mendez's office.
02:34A large crowd has gathered,
02:35demanding the doctor be held accountable for negligence.
02:39Grant puts Ken on air,
02:40and he describes a scene of chaos and carnage,
02:43which has led to many deaths.
02:44He hears explosions, but doesn't see any police.
02:47Instead, military helicopters appear.
02:50The journalist doesn't know what's happening,
02:52but it seems very serious.
02:54Meanwhile, Sydney and Laurel-Ann try to verify the report,
02:57but there's no connection with the authorities.
02:59To make matters worse,
03:01a tour group of Arab settlers arrives at the station
03:03for an interview.
03:04Grant is outraged by this,
03:06but Sydney asks him to focus on the job
03:08as they still have no confirmation of the incident.
03:11Grant is forced to listen to the guests singing.
03:14Suddenly, one of the girls begins saying that God is gone
03:17and everything will end soon.
03:19She seems to forget her words
03:20and starts speaking in unintelligible interjections,
03:23which alarms Grant.
03:24He is convinced something terrible is happening,
03:26but there's no news yet.
03:28At this point, a witness named Steve connects with them,
03:31but suddenly starts screaming and urging everyone to run.
03:34He is cut off.
03:35Grant starts elaborating on the topic,
03:37though Sydney tries to stop him,
03:39thinking they're being pranked,
03:40as Ken still hasn't contacted them.
03:43Those who call in speak very quickly and incoherently.
03:46There are no official comments.
03:48Finally, they manage to reach the constable,
03:50who says the crowd broke into the doctor's office
03:52where an old woman was present.
03:54She later died from her injuries.
03:56Sydney is skeptical, but the constable recalls
03:59that the deceased kept talking about Hitler.
04:02Grant summarizes, the crowd is moving in a specific area,
04:05talking about something incomprehensible.
04:08Then a call comes in about a family isolated in their car,
04:11but Sydney still believes the events
04:13are a simulation of something dreadful.
04:15Suddenly, a BBC journalist calls the station,
04:17asking Grant to confirm that Canadian troops
04:20are blocking roads into the country,
04:21but Grant knows nothing about this.
04:23He tries to refute these rumors,
04:25but the BBC journalist is sure they're true.
04:28At last, Ken gets back in touch,
04:30insisting that something terrible is happening.
04:32He's hiding because he saw killings,
04:34and it seems people are turning into cannibals.
04:37Everyone is behaving like madmen.
04:39At that moment, he sees people
04:41being dragged out of cars and bitten.
04:43Suddenly, Ken sees a guy who entered his basement
04:45and collapsed nearby.
04:47He says something, and the journalist wants to approach him
04:49to hear the words.
04:50Grant begs the guy not to do it.
04:52Ken's call is interrupted by a broadcast in French.
04:55Laurel Anne translates it,
04:57but doesn't understand the meaning
04:58because they're talking about baby babble.
05:00Grant addresses the listeners,
05:02asking them not to leave their homes
05:04and not to speak English.
05:05He even tells them not to translate his message.
05:08Pontypool is declared under quarantine.
05:10At that moment, Ken reconnects
05:11and plays the sounds his injured neighbor is making.
05:14They sound like a child's voice, an infant.
05:17Then Ken falls silent.
05:18Sidney is startled to hear the BBC journalist
05:21mention the missing cat.
05:22Confused, Grant wants to leave,
05:24but Sidney tries to calm him down.
05:26Still, he walks out of the studio,
05:28repeating the words about the missing cat.
05:30He'd seen the notice posted all over town.
05:32The man heads for the door,
05:34despite the women asking him to stay,
05:36and opens it where Laurel Anne
05:38sees a crowd approaching the studio.
05:40Grant, Sidney, and Laurel Anne lock themselves inside.
05:43The journalist goes on air,
05:44starting to tell horrific stories of murders
05:47that have spread across the country.
05:49The women try not to listen to these terrifying tales,
05:51not understanding what's happening to Grant.
05:53But soon, even Laurel Anne starts behaving strangely,
05:56claiming that Grant is not in the studio.
05:58The girl leaves, and a bewildered Sidney
06:00makes herself tea when Dr. Mendez
06:02climbs in through the window.
06:04He sees the strangely frozen Laurel Anne
06:06and leads Sidney into Grant's soundproof booth.
06:09The doctor explains that their colleague
06:11is already infected, though she doesn't realize it.
06:14Dr. Mendez goes on air while Laurel Anne
06:16begins banging her head against the glass of the booth
06:18and bites her lower lip.
06:20The doctor says that the world
06:21has faced a series of tragic outcomes.
06:23However, before taking their lives,
06:26people look for someone to share their fate with.
06:28At the same time, Ken calls again,
06:30saying his neighbor has died.
06:32People are constantly passing by him, talking about boats.
06:36As he tells this, Ken suddenly stumbles over his words.
06:39The people in the studio realize he is infected too.
06:42They say goodbye to the reporter and cut him off.
06:45Sidney mourns her friend,
06:46reminiscing about their work together.
06:48Laurel Anne bangs on the glass again.
06:50Grant suddenly wonders, can the infected read lips?
06:54Dr. Mendez tries to figure out how the virus spreads,
06:57then, with horror, admits that it's already here,
06:59because it's in the words.
07:01Mendez suggests that the virus has infected
07:04certain words in the English language.
07:06It's these words that spread the infection to others,
07:08who then find the next person to kill themselves with.
07:11This is a new path of transmission,
07:13and this is the end of humanity,
07:15because it simply cannot be stopped.
07:17A person hears an infected word, understands it,
07:20and the virus immediately implants its strains
07:22into their comprehension.
07:24The doctor asks everyone to be silent,
07:26but Grant objects, saying they must tell people about it
07:28to protect them.
07:29At this point, Sidney receives a call from her children
07:32and hears that they've been infected.
07:33Laurel Anne spews a stream of blood and collapses, dead.
07:37Mendez suspects that it happened
07:39because she couldn't find a victim.
07:40It seems that this is how the virus exits the body.
07:44The group then hears noise outside
07:45and realizes a large crowd has gathered at the building.
07:48Soon, the infected break in
07:50and try to get into the sound booth.
07:52Grant theorizes that the infected may follow their voices,
07:55and Sidney records Grant's voice,
07:57playing it through an external speaker
07:58to distract the crowd.
08:00The infected hear the message that Sidney Breyer is alive
08:03and follow the sound.
08:04In his excitement,
08:05Mendez switches to the Armenian language,
08:07and everyone realizes that only English is infected.
08:11Grant and Sidney start speaking French,
08:13leaving the doctor in the booth and heading to the kitchen.
08:15But on their way, they are attacked
08:17by the infected Arab girl, whom they barely fend off,
08:20eventually killing her, much to Sidney's shock.
08:22They look at the doctor in the booth,
08:23deciding who should kill him if he gets infected
08:26when the doctor runs outside,
08:27trying to say something to them.
08:28But then music plays,
08:30causing the infected to return to the building.
08:32Sidney, Grant, and the doctor
08:34lock themselves in the control room.
08:36The doctor then climbs out their window
08:37and distracts the infected, saving Grant and Sidney.
08:41The pair find themselves isolated from the outside world.
08:44While Grant tries to figure out how to reverse the symptoms,
08:47Sidney obsessively writes confessions
08:49of killing the girl on the walls and doors,
08:51and she becomes infected with the word kill.
08:54Grant recalls the doctor's words
08:55about the danger of comprehension.
08:57A person repeats an infected word,
08:59trying to understand it, and becomes infected themselves.
09:02He realizes that Sidney is infected by the word kill
09:05and convinces her that the word now means kiss.
09:09He starts repeating it over and over,
09:10and gradually, Sidney's symptoms disappear.
09:13The pair kiss in delight.
09:15Then hoping to stop the virus, the journalists go on air,
09:17uttering a series of contradictory and confusing words
09:20to help their infected listeners.
09:22Grant explains the essence of his discovery,
09:24urging people to stop understanding what they're saying.
09:27The authorities immediately try to cut them off
09:29from the air, but the pair ignore their warnings
09:31and continue changing the meanings of words.
09:34Outside, the sounds of helicopters
09:36and gunfire can be heard.
09:37The military is killing the infected population.
09:40Grant yells, demanding they stop the killings,
09:43and suddenly, everything goes quiet.
09:45The journalist says that tomorrow will bring a new day
09:48when they will do the same thing they always do,
09:50and the meaning of life is precisely that.
09:52This is not the end of the world, just the end of a day.
09:55As an amplified voice outside counts down from 10,
09:58Sidney joins Grant in the booth, and they kiss.
10:01An explosion is heard, and the screen goes black.
10:04During the credits, news reports from around the world play.
10:07The quarantine didn't help, and soon,
10:09the virus reached the source of the infected language,
10:11England.
10:13In the post-credits scene, Sidney and Grant survive
10:15the virus and continue speaking English,
10:17perfecting their system of verbal role-playing games.
10:20An unusual plot indeed.
10:22The viewer doesn't see the classic horror elements
10:24of societal collapse, chaos in the streets,
10:27or flesh-eating, but you can hear it
10:28since most of the film takes place in one room
10:30with events unfolding over the radio.
10:33And strangely enough, that makes it all the more terrifying.