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2009 | Stephen
Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role | 2010 | Stephen
Best Screenplay Adapted | 2010 | Tony
Best Achievement in Direction | 2010 | Bruce
Best Actor | 2010 | Stephen
Best Actor in a Canadian Film | 2010 | Stephen
Best Supporting Actress in a Canadian Film | 2010 | Lisa
Best Adapted Screenplay | 2010 | Tony
Best DVD Release | 2010
2009 | Bruce
Best Canadian Film | 2009 | Bruce
Best Foreign Movie | 2009
Budget 1,500,000 USD
Box Office Collection 32,000 USD
"Pontypool" was produced as both a motion picture, and as a radio play. Both versions of "Pontypool" were influenced by Orson Welles' infamous radio production of "The War of the Worlds." The radio play was broadcast on the BBC's Art & Culture section of their World Service website. It is approximately 58 minutes long, as opposed to the film's running time of 95 minutes.
Bruce McDonald, the director of the film, has said that the victims of the virus are called "conversationalists," as opposed to "zombies". In describing the stages of the virus, McDonald said: "There are three stages to this virus. The first stage is you might begin to repeat a word. Something gets stuck. And usually it's words that are terms of endearment, like sweetheart or honey. The second stage is your language becomes scrambled and you can't express yourself properly. The third stage is that you become so distraught at your condition that the only way out of the situation you feel, as an infected person, is to try and chew your way through the mouth of another person".
Tony Burgess, the film's writer and the author of the novel on which the film is based - "Pontypool Changes Everything" - makes a brief cameo in the film as the male singer of Lawrence and the Arabians. His character is credited as "Tony (Lawrence)". (In fact, at the end of the scene where the singers have performed for the bemused Grant Mazzy, Mazzy himself actually refers to Burgess' character as "Tony Burgess.")
The original conceptualization for the movie was to have Tony Burgess read the script with the wavering line being the only visual. Sydney's voice would be heard and Laurel Ann would only get a mention.
At approximately 36 minutes into the movie, the character of Ken reports on a group of infected taking two people from a van and biting them. The sound of the victims screaming is partially taken from the famous chest bursting scene from the film Alien (1979). You can even hear the distinct hissing sound as John Hurt's character's chest spurts blood for the first time.
"[first lines] Grant Mazzy: Mrs. French's cat is missing. The signs are posted all over town. "Have you seen Honey?" We've all seen the posters, but nobody has seen Honey the cat. Nobody. Until last Thursday morning, when Miss Colette Piscine swerved her car to miss Honey the cat as she drove across a bridge. Well this bridge, now slightly damaged, is a bit of a local treasure and even has its own fancy name; Pont de Flaque. Now Collette, that sounds like Culotte. That's Panty in French. And Piscine means Pool. Panty pool. Flaque also means pool in French, so Colete Piscine, in French Panty Pool, drives over the Pont de Flaque, the Pont de Pool if you will, to avoid hitting Mrs. French's cat that has been missing in Pontypool. Pontypool. Pontypool. Panty pool. Pont de Flaque. What does it mean? Well, Norman Mailer, he had an interesting theory that he used to explain the strange coincidences in the aftermath of the JFK assasination. In the wake of huge events, after them and before them, physical details they spasm for a moment; they sort of unlock and when they come back into focus they suddenly coincide in a weird way. Street names and birthdates and middle names, all kind of superfluous things appear related to eachother. It's a ripple effect. So, what does it mean? Well... it means something's going to happen. Something big. But then, something's always about to happen."
"Grant Mazzy: Is not understanding what disinfects it? See, that's the question. If it disinfects it, then how - without distorting, how do you do that? Sydney Briar: You kill the word that's killing you. Grant Mazzy: Oh, you kill the word that's killing you! That's good! You repeat it. Yeah, I remember as a kid, I used to, uh, I used to repeat words over and over again till they were incomprehensible. You think that's what it is? Is that why they're repeating things? Is it some kind of immune system response? Sydney Briar: You have to kill all the killing. Grant Mazzy: But it doesn't work, because they repeat the word and then they still get sick. So how do you make it unrecognizable? How? And what word? Sydney Briar: Kill. Grant Mazzy: Kill. Sydney Briar: Kill. Kill. Kill. Kill. Grant Mazzy: Syd? Sydney Briar: Kill. Kill. Kill. Kill. Grant Mazzy: Are you okay? You okay? Sydney Briar: Kill, kill, kill. Grant Mazzy: Ok. Syd? Sydney, I, - I think you got an infected word. You - you're infected. But we know the word. [Sydney cries] Grant Mazzy: Don't say anything. No, no, no, stop. We know the word. Sydney Briar: [Crying] Kill, kill, kill. Grant Mazzy: Ok, kill isn't kill. Sydney, kill isn't kill. It isn't kill. Kill isn't kill. Kill isn't kill. Kill isn't kill. Kill isn't kill. Kill isn't kill. Oh, god. I don't know, I don't know. I don't know. Uh, uh, ok. Kill is blue. Kill is wonderful. Kill is loving. Kill is baby. Kill is Manet's Garden. Kill is a beautiful morning. Kill is everything you ever wanted. Kill is, kill is, uh, kill is kiss. [Sydney begins calming down] Grant Mazzy: Kill is - kill is - kill is kiss? Kill is kiss. Is that it? Kill is kiss? Kill is kiss. Kill is kiss. Kill is kiss. Kill is kiss! Kill is kiss? Kill is kiss. What is kill? Sydney Briar: Kiss. Kill me. Grant Mazzy: What? Sydney Briar: Kill me. [Kisses Grant] Sydney Briar: Kill is kiss. Kill is kiss. Kill is kiss. Ok. Ok, I feel better."
