Pontypool Changes Everything
by Tony Burgessliterary work· published 1995
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Pontypool Changes Everything is the second novel in the Pontypool Trilogy, by Tony Burgess, first published in 1995. It was adapted into the 2008 film Pontypool with a screenplay by Burgess and was nominated for a Genie Award for the adaptation. A new kind of virus that spreads through the use of language appears in the small Ontario town of Pontypool. The plague, AMPS (Acquired Metastructural Pediculosis), causes people across Ontario to slip into aphasia and then into a cannibalistic zombie rage. AMPS is transferred through language and the only way to stop its spread is to outlaw communication.
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Pontypool Changes Everything was adapted into a 2008 film.
Pontypool2008 · film · 93 min · dir. Bruce McDonald · IMDb ↗When disc jockey Grant Mazzy reports to his basement radio station in the Canadian town of Pontypool, he thinks it's just another day at work. But when he hears reports of a virus that turns people into zombies, Mazzy barricades himself in the radio booth and tries to figure out a way to warn his listeners about the virus and its unlikely mode of transmission.
