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When the English Language Becomes a Virus
Published 6/3/2008 at Bloody-Disgusting Horror News
Principal photography is underway in Toronto for PONTYPOOL, a new film from director Bruce McDonald (Highway 61, Roadkill and recently, The Tracey Fragments, with Ellen Page). "It is set in a radio station in Pontypool and our morning team took reports in of extreme and bloody incidents of violence. The reason for this violence is that the English language has become infected with a virus," McDonald tells 680 News in an interview. From a script by Tony Burgess, the film stars Stephen McHattie, Daniel Fathers, Georgina Reilly and Beatriz Yuste. The great ...

Don't Speak English, Or The Language Virus Will Get You [Pontypool]
Published 6/4/2008 by Meredith Woerner at io9
... sexy space opera Lexx, stopped by the 680 News Radio Station in Toronto to do research for his his new horror movie Pontypool, which is set mostly in a radio station in Pontypool, Wales. He was pretty mum on the plot but spilled that, "The reason for this violence is that the English language has become infected with a virus." Like a killer meme? Or something else? Maybe the plot follows William S. Burroughs' idea that "language is a virus from outer space." [680News via Bloody Disgusting] ...