Pontypool

Shut up or die.

A claustrophobic, idea-driven horror film that weaponizes language itself, trapping its protagonist in a radio booth while an invisible, linguistic plague spreads outside.

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.