A doctor hires an escort to seduce her husband, whom she suspects of cheating, though unforeseen events put the family in danger.
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.
An ambitious reporter probes the reasons behind the sudden split of a 1950s comedy team.
