Episode 24. Kill is Kiss: Pontypool (2008)

Faculty of Horror

Andrea Subissati and Alexandra West

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🗓️ 25 February 2015

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Up is down, left is right and black is white in this month’s episode. Tackling the Canadian winter horror film Pontypool, Andrea and Alex talk about national identity, broadcast journalism and how the stories we tell should stop making sense. REQUIRED READING Pontypool. Dir Bruce McDonald. 2008. EXTRA CREDIT Marshall McLuhan’s Understanding Media: The Extension […]

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0:00.0	Mrs French's cat is missing. The signs are posted all over town. Have you seen honey? We've all seen
0:16.4	the posters, but nobody has seen honey the cat. Nobody until last Thursday morning when Miss Coolek the scene swerved her car to miss
0:26.8	hunting the cat as she drove across a bridge.
0:29.8	Well, this bridge now slightly damaged is a bit of a local treasure and even has its own fancy name,
0:36.5	Ponte de Flack. Now, Colette, that sounds like Koulotte. That's Patty and French. And Pissin means pool.
0:48.0	Paddy pool. Flack also means pool and French. So, Colette Pissin.
0:54.0	In French, Paddy Bowl drives over the
0:57.0	plant of flack, the pot-pool, if you will,
0:59.0	to avoid hearing Mrs. French's cat that has been missing in Ponty-Boul.
1:04.0	Ponty-Boul, Ponty-Bau, Pontifoul.
1:09.0	What does it mean?
1:11.0	Well, it means something's going to happen, something big, but then something's always about to happen. Hi everyone and welcome back to the Faculty of Horror. This is Alex West with Andrea
1:28.2	See the Sadie and oh my goodness we promise change and here it is.
1:33.5	Well, maybe not for you guys, but hopefully you notice
1:36.7	we sound a little bit better and we're definitely very excited
1:40.0	because now the Faculty of Horror has a brand new home in the Rumorg vault.
1:45.0	That's right. We are recording from the same room that the Rumorg Podcast recorded out of
1:50.0	the Hallowed Halls of the Rumorg Podcast are now the Horrid Halls of Academia.
1:55.2	We are recording the Faculty of Horror Out of Here Forevermore.
1:58.4	We've got a huge upgrade on equipment.
2:01.3	We're not totally sure how to use all this stuff yet, but hopefully there's a noticeable difference in our quality and we're so excited to be bringing you that upgrade.
2:10.0	And just to set the scene a little bit, so the Rummark offices are in a nice kind of standard
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