Just when you think there might be nothing to write about today...
Interesting item on CNN today: a zombie movie is going to shoot for two days in the abandoned area surrounding the Chernobyl nuclear reactor.
Crazy? Not really. Frightening though it is, I have to admit it's the perfect setting for such a film. Chernobyl is a place trapped in time. From the moment of the accident, the nearby city and the surrounding countryside became a snapshot of that day, forever preserved under a layer of radiation-tinged silence. The description from the article only begins to scratch the surface of what has been left behind:
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"The sense of a post-apocalyptic world dawns as we follow the Chaika around the Chernobyl district."
"Grass and shrubs sprout from holes in the sides of crumbling cottages. A graveyard for helicopters, fire trucks and other equipment used in the cleanup operation in 1986 stretches beside a road. In Pripyat, the deserted town that once housed the reactor's work force and their families, children's toys still litter the rubbish-strewn kindergarten, and fading Soviet slogans adorn the sides of gaunt concrete apartment blocks."
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The title of the film is Necropolis, and you can read about it HERE. I'm half tempted to see the movie just to get a glimpse of a place few people have ever seen alive -- a place that stands silent sentinel to a time and place not so long forgotten as people might believe...
Still, I bet it's paradise to a zombie!
