^ I've been back and forth on this! Yes it's tragic for sure, yes it's wrong that people exploit the event for financial gains, it's even worse that it's the entertainment business at that, but this is what the people want. Every fucking war has been exploited in the same manner and they're all having the same tragic effects in reality. Yet people are gathering by millions to see the said movies.
This is different compared to those movies. Those are attempting to show the real horror of those situations for the most part, this is just applying horror tropes to Chernobyl.
Sadly the heart defects are only a small part of what some people went trough
Hell on earth for some
Right, but I don't get why people associate creepy kids with Chernobyl. Its not like the town was just a giant Russian orphanage only populated with kids and were abandoned. The real Chernobyl kids are a sad story.
The Hell was due to the radiation, and is really the only thing scary about the place, but its not scary in any way horror movies try to use it.
Yeah, yeah, its movie and a horror movie at that so its stupid to pick apart....
I think the area is a great setting, its shame to see it wasted with cliched horror.
The area was definitely evacuated and abandoned, but the plant itself was operated until 2000, and although all the reactors are now shut down, plenty of people still work there. Pripyat is abandoned, but the plant is not.
They're also replacing the containment structure they threw up over the melted-down reactor.
Yeah they're basically building a large sorta hangar over it so they can do more work on the site. Its a need as the sarcophagus is in bad shape and IIRC never full sealed the reactor. It wasn't intended to be in place this long either.