The abandoned towers of Chernobyl / Pripyat were so convincingly reproduced (the filmmakers shot abandoned Soviet bases in Hungary and Serbia) one wonders how many people were fooled into thinking this actually was filmed on location. While some have called it exploitation, basing a horror film on a tragedy like that is a stroke of brilliance. The unlucky residents of Pripyat got over 50 X what was considered a safe annual dose of radiation in a few days. We later learned Chernobyl’s radioactive fallout was 100 X greater than the two atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and that if a second explosion had occurred, it would’ve wiped out half of Europe.
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In that, the world’s most lethal nuclear disaster, a series of detonations went off in the core releasing uranium and graphite. While viewers won’t lose their shirts, they won’t exactly earn back their initial capital either.Īn American expat living in Kiev convinces his brother and two friends to take a detour to the city of Pripyat, best known as the town inhabited by Chernobyl nuclear workers and their families before it was abandoned in the nuclear meltdown of 1986. "Some of the pages are hard to look at, but that is on purpose.Chernobyl Diaries has an outstanding premise, one in which any fan of biohazard films would be wholeheartedly invested. However, for every peak, there is an inevitable trough. The scenes, drawn by Norberto Fernandez, are meant to be ridiculously violent in a animalistic and primal way never seen before, Palmiotti says. What was popularly known as the "Swine Flu" was pretty bad, but it didn't have a horde of vicious Neanderthals ripping people apart like in Retrovirus. It all sort of mashed together around our protagonist and formed who (Zoe) is." "That experience kicked the story off in a new direction around the same time scientists were looking at studying retroviruses including Spanish Influenza. Gray was infected, probably on that plane, he says.
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Back in 2009 during the H1N1 outbreak, he and Palmiotti were flying to the set of the movie Jonah Hex - since they're notable writers of the DC Comics Western antihero - when, while they were in the air, Vice President Joe Biden said he wouldn't let his kids on a plane worrying they'd contract the virus.
Gray's fascinated by just how many pandemics there have been in history, and had his run-in with one of them. "I like to look at the character as an interesting amalgam of Justin and I and what we would do in a situation. Zoe represents what would happen if you dropped a smart person into a perfect disaster of a mess involving all those issues, Palmiotti says. The two writers based much of Retrovirus on issues in science that have become tot topics in news and culture recently, from human evolution to Neanderthals to the fear of yet another global pandemic. Films like The Cabin in the Woods and The Chernobyl Diaries among others are void of hope in their outcomes." "The trend is back where a number of horror movies and even sci-fi default to a nihilistic ending. "The out-of-control nature of the story is something that has always fascinated me as well as scared me."Īt the same time, they also wanted to create a tale that had a sense of optimism, adds Gray, who once worked at a fossil amber company.
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