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Pontypool (2008) KILL COUNT

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Pontypool (2008) KILL COUNT is the three hundred and thirty-second video of The Kill Count.

Overview[]

In the small town of Pontypool, Ontario, radio announcer Grant Mazzy is accosted by a nonsensical woman who repeats the word "blood" several times before staggering away.

At the radio station, Grant's shock jock style and on-air persona entertain his technical assistant, Laurel-Ann, while irritating his station manager, Sydney. Helicopter reporter Ken Loney calls in with a report about a riot at the office of Dr. Jon Mendez that has resulted in numerous deaths. After Ken is unexpectedly cut off, the group tries to confirm his report, but their witnesses are disconnected before being put on the airwaves. After they are contacted by the BBC for breaking the story, Ken calls back and says he has taken refuge in a grain silo. He describes the rioters as trying to eat one another or even themselves. When one of the rioters attacks the silo, Ken's call is interrupted by an audio transmission in French.

Laurel-Ann translates the transmission, which is an instruction to remain indoors, not to use terms of endearment, rhetorical discourse, or the English language and not to translate the message. Pontypool is declared to be under quarantine. Ken calls back again and gets his phone close enough to his attacker so that his murmurs of "Help me" in a baby-like voice are audible. A horde of people attack the radio station, and Grant, Sydney, and Laurel-Ann lock themselves inside. Meanwhile, Laurel-Ann begins repeating the word "missing" and imitates the sound of a tea kettle.

Dr. Mendez arrives at the radio station through a window and hides with Grant and Sydney in the soundproof booth. Ken calls in and, while on the air, succumbs to the virus. Laurel-Ann begins to slam her head against the sound booth's window and chews off her lower lip. Mendez hypothesizes that a virus has infected certain words in the English language; only certain words infect certain people who then find another infected person to kill themselves with. Sydney receives a call from her children, only to hear them becoming infected. Outside the booth, Laurel-Ann vomits a large amount of blood and falls down, dead. Mendez suspects this has happened since she failed to find a victim.

The horde then breaks into the radio station, attacking the sound booth. Sydney draws the mob outside with a looped recording of Grant's voice saying 'Sydney Briar is alive". When he fears that he is about to succumb to the virus, Dr. Mendez begins to speak in Armenian upon realizing that the virus is exclusive to the English language, which prevents the virus from taking over. When the recording fails, the mob returns but Mendez lures them away, saving Sydney and Grant, who now lock themselves in the equipment room.

While Grant tries to figure out how to reverse the symptom, Sydney begins to succumb to the word "kill". Grant convinces her that the word "kill" now means "kiss" and her symptoms subside. Hoping to stop the virus, the pair go on the air, spouting a series of self-contradicting and confusing phrases to help their infected listeners, ignoring warnings from the authorities who are trying to get them off the air. While an amplified voice from outside counts down from ten, Sydney joins Grant in the booth and they kiss. An explosion can be heard when the film cuts to black.

Over the black, news reports of further outbreaks of the virus suggest that the quarantine failed, spread by the news itself and eventually reaching England, the source of its targeted language. In a post-credits scene, Sydney and Grant (now known as "Lisa" and "Johnny Deadeyes") survive the virus and continue speaking English by maintaining a system of improvisational roleplay as the screen shifts from black and white to color.

Deaths[]

Counted Deaths:[]

  • Jesse Galt (Baby-Sounding "Big Teenager Boy") - Died over phone after crashing through wall - 43 mins in
  • 20 Pontypoolers In The Obits (Including Lawrence) - Reported as having killed each other in various ways - 49-50 mins in
  • Ken Loney - Heard over phone succumbing to virus - 58 mins in
  • Laurel-Ann Drummond - Infected & became a human blood geyser - 1 hr 7 mins in
  • Maureen ("Farraj") - Straight stomped to death by Grant and Sydney - 1 hr 12 mins in
  • 2 Stairwell Bodies - Seen dead inside radio station - 1 hr 18 mins in (Bodies seen)
  • Grant Mazzy - Probably bombed by the Government - 1 hr 32 mins in
  • Sydney Briar - Probably bombed by the Government - 1 hr 32 mins in

Non-Counted Deaths:[]

  • 75 Pontypoolers - Killed offscreen
  • 8 Other Pontypoolers In The Obits - Reported as having killed each other in various ways
  • The rest of the racist family (Jay Pullman, Tony Burgess, Nancy Fethiye, and Collen Pullman) - Fate unknown, likely bombed or infected
  • Dr. Jon Mendez - Fate unknown, likely bombed or infected

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