Does the dog die?
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Pontypool
Movie • 2009 • Horror
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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.
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There is a poster of a missing cat. You never see the cat, but assume it is dead.
Lora Shanks
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Is there dementia/Alzheimer's?
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The main characters talk over the phone to a colleague who gets infected. His speech gradually becomes more and more incoherent, until the crew sadly says goodbye and hangs up on him, knowing he will likely die soon. While it's not dementia, it feels a bit reminiscent of it.
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Abuse
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Passing mention of a deceased character being a pedophile.
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Is there domestic violence?
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
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near the ending one of the characters drinks until they are intoxicated. there are several scenes with alchohol before this.
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Not on screen, but one character asks another if they smoke marijuana and they say yes.
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Does a cat die?
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A missing cat poster is shown, unknown if it is alive or dead.
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Does a pet die?
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There is discussion of a missing cat - we don't know what ultimately happens to it.
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Is there a dead animal?
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nothing shown, but there is a missing cat poster.
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Is there pedophilia?
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There is a mention of one of the background characters being one.
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Is there body horror?
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Not shown but mentioned in detail.
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Are any teeth damaged?
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At one point a character has lots of cuts/injuries around their mouth, but no teeth damage specifically.
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Is there throat mutilation?
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Mentioned, not shown.
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Is there cannibalism?
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not shown but described
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Is someone crushed to death?
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We hear reports of people dying at a doctor's office where the building collapses due to an enormous crowd all trying to get inside at once. No specific mention of people being crushed in the collapse that I recall.
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Is there amputation?
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Someone is described as having stumps of arms instead of hands. We don't hear or see the amputations themselves, nor do we find out how they occurred.
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Does someone break a bone?
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Not shown, but described in detail.
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Are any hands damaged?
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There is a mention that a teen's hands are broken off their body.
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Does a kid die?
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The most that is shown is the main characters kill a girl and discuss killing the girl after she attacks them. Gore is not shown on screen, but her body is shown after the fact. Gore not shown for the most part. Many children die. A teenager is described as having passed away due to injuries over a phone call. The obituaries are read of many people, including children, in a montage scene, but none die onscreen.
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Descriptions of townsfolk who are dead. Some of the dead are parents to both adult and child offspring who are equally dead. None of these people are characters who serve any role other than to be listed as casualties.
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One of the main characters is a mom to kids we never see, since they are safe 100km away from the action with their father. It is implied that a bomb drops on her location, leading the viewer to believe she is dead, but she then appears in an after-credits scene that is filmed in an entirely different style, dressed and speaking differently, and adopting a different name.
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One of the main characters is a mom to kids we never see, since they are safe 100km away from the action with their father. It is implied that a bomb drops on her location, leading the viewer to believe she is dead, but she then appears in an after-credits scene that is filmed in an entirely different style, dressed and speaking differently, and adopting a different name.
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one mild jumpscare at the beginning and one scarier in the middle/end
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Is someone possessed?
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Characters lose control of themselves in a way that may feel like possession.
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Does someone vomit?
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It happens around the 1:07 mark. Graphic visuals and audio.
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Laurel-Ann projectile vomits a great deal of blood onto the glass of the booth after Sydney thanks Mazzy for the Valentine’s Day card. Sydney then leans over and vomits at the sight of it.
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Laurel-Ann projectile vomits a great deal of blood onto the glass of the booth after Sydney thanks Mazzy for the Valentine’s Day card. Sydney then leans over and vomits at the sight of it.
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Is there audio gore?
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a long description of violence via telephone
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Is someone eaten?
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Yes, such is a big part of the chaos.
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someone slams their head into a wall until they are bloody but i am not sure if they died
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An infected person tries to bite their own tongue off, smashes their face into a window repeatedly, and tries to electrocute themself.
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A person repeatedly slams their face against a glass barrier until they’re bloody.
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Is there misophonia?
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Grant‘s voice is very "spitty" with lots of plosives.
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
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Someone does ask another person to kill them, with the literal words "kill me," but they are substituting "kill" for a different verb, and using it to mean something that is not "kill."
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Does someone suffer from PTSD?
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A character (who is a veteran) briefly mentions struggling with PTSD. It doesn't go into detail, though.
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
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everything in this movie is claustrophobic. they cannot leave the room they are in because of the zombies.
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Are there anxiety attacks?
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not sure if it counts as an anxiety attack but one character goes into a state of shock and screams and yells at people
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Does a baby cry?
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A character makes baby-like sounds over the phone, but it's more like babbling than crying.
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Does a pregnant person die?
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A passing mention in an obituary, offscreen.
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Are there babies or unborn children?
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Maybe a hallucination or an adult imitating the sound of one, though.
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Prejudice
Are there homophobic slurs?
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"cocksuckers" one time.
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Is there hate speech?
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not necissarily hate speech but there are people pretending to be from afghanistan and they paint their faces to look darker. there are multiple racist lyrics in the song they sing, also a few racist jokes.
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Is a minority is misrepresented?
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Racist group of white performers do racist musical performance dressed and made up as a racistly stereotyped version of Arabs. The lyrics to their song are explicitly violent in nature and lean in hard to the terrorist stereotype.
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Does the black guy die first?
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Literally everyone is white.
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Race
Is there blackface?
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Saw no mention of this prior, was so drawn out and absolutely wild to see. Randomly shoved into what otherwise could've been a great movie, but was ultimately too uncomfortable to continue watching.
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Are there incestuous relationships?
National Sexual Assault Hotline 800.656.4673
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Social
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Spoiler
Does it have a sad ending?
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the two main characters survive but everyone else dies
the two main characters survive but everyone else dies
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Vehicular
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There is mention of a crash at the very beginning.
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Violence
Is there blood/gore?
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blood only in a few breif scenes and no gore
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Is there gun violence?
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you can hear gunshots
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Is there a nuclear explosion?
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[SPOILER]
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Some sort of bomb is (presumably) dropped on the building at the end.
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Some sort of bomb is (presumably) dropped on the building at the end.
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