ZOMBIES Pt 18: Pontypool (2008) & The Girl With All The Gifts (2016)
The Evolution of Horror
Mike Muncer
4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 24 May 2019
⏱️ 106 minutes
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Summary
It’s not the end of the world. It’s just the end of the day. This week Mike is joined by writer and actor Adam Robinson to discuss two smart, modern takes on the zombie format…Pontypool and The Girl With All The Gifts.
Music by Jack Whitney.
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| 0:00.0 | The How does a zombie infection spread? Well, we've seen it spread in various ways across |
| 0:28.7 | movies over the last 50 years. We've seen it spread through blood but it also spreads through |
| 0:33.4 | saliva it can spread through touch it can spread through |
| 0:36.3 | supernatural means it can spread it can spread in all kinds of ways spread |
| 0:40.9 | it can spread in a way that we don't necessarily always see coming. |
| 0:44.9 | What if it could spread through language? What if it could spread through the use of the |
| 0:48.8 | words spread? And if it's spread through the word spread, does that mean that we can't say spread anymore and if |
| 0:54.7 | we can't say spread does that mean we can still use spread well maybe we can but |
| 0:58.8 | we may not be able to call it spread otherwise the infection will spread |
| 1:02.2 | through spread so the only thing we can do is to stop understanding |
| 1:05.6 | spread. How do we do that? Maybe we keep saying it. Spread, spread, spread, |
| 1:10.0 | spread. Maybe we've changed it. Maybe we change the word, maybe we say spread is |
| 1:14.0 | bed, maybe spread is bed, and then if spread is bed, maybe spread no longer |
| 1:20.0 | becomes dangerous and if spread is no longer dangerous does that mean that |
| 1:22.8 | zombie infections can no longer spread but can they still spread if they spread |
| 1:26.5 | through bed but if spread is bed then what is bed is bed is bed spread in which case |
| 1:31.4 | if we go to bed if we go to spread is that dangerous. |
| 1:34.0 | Spread spread spread spread spread spread spread spread spread spread spread That's the end. The end. |
| 1:44.0 | Do not translate this message. |
| 1:50.0 | Welcome back to the evolution of horror. My name is Mike and as ever I am your host. If you |
| 1:55.8 | tuning in for the first time then welcome. In this podcast we explore and |
| 1:59.4 | dissect the evolution of the horror genre by looking at particular sub-jomras across several weeks. |
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