Pontypool
Headed to work on a particularly foul Valentine's Day morning, caustic radio personality Grant Mazzy (played with uncommon verve by Stephen McHattie) isn't expecting anything different.
He'll update the weather, announce school closures, relay the obits and fight with his producer Sydney Briar (Lisa Houle) about how a little controversy makes good radio.
Mazzy was a big-shot star before he wound up working at The Beacon, a tiny station run out of the church basement in a little piece of nowhere called Pontypool. But today things don't seem so run-of-the-mill.
A distraught woman, straight from Herk Harvey's Carnival of Souls, nearly runs into Mazzy as he's heading to work.
And the provincial police have a shootout with a group of people ice fishing they may have all been drunk (including the cops), but the suspects were reportedly talking gibberish, running around naked and missing body parts. Then there's the riot at the offices of Dr. Mendes (Hrant Alianak).
The morning team starts taking reports of extreme, bloody incidents of violence occurring in town. As the story unfolds, the radio staff soon realizes the violence that is ripping society apart is due to a virus being spread through the English language.
That in turn poses a problem for a yappy radio jock and his staff holed up in the broadcast booth housed in the basement of the town's abandoned church as a slaughter rages beyond its walls.
Starring: Stephen McHattie, Lisa Houle, Georgina Reilly, Hrant Alianak, Rick Roberts