Teaser Trailer for North Sea Released, Film Sold for U.K. Fantefilm has released a teaser trailer for their latest production, Nordsjøen (North Sea), which explores the consequences of 50 years of offshore drilling by Norway. The film was directed by John Andreas Andersen from a script by Lars Gudmestad and Harald Rosenløw-Eeg. The movie stars […]
Trailer: Chernobyl: Abyss (2020)
Yesterday saw the release of Chernobyl: Abyss trailer, the first major Russian-produced film about the immediate aftermath of the 1986 nuclear disaster. Hundreds of people died in the attempt to both clean up the site of the catastrophe and contain the radiation before it could spread across the continent and beyond. First-time director Danila Kozlovsky […]
The Year in Disaster Movies: 2019
Well, it’s been a year, hasn’t it? Here at The Disaster Area, we’ve suffered everything from killer alligators to runaway balloons to planetary failure. Let’s take a closer look. 2019 saw 17 disaster movies being released. By far, the most successful in terms of box office was a Chinese film released back in February: Liu […]
Review: The Command (2018)
It might have been to The Command‘s detriment that I watched it very soon after Chernobyl. Apparently this is the summer for Soviet disaster movies. Both films cover actual nuclear disasters that happened because of the culture of the time: the overriding imperative to be first/best, damn the human cost, along with paranoia and arrogance […]
Review: Chernobyl (2019)
“What is the cost of lies?” Caution: This review contains descriptions of suicide and animals being harmed. This is the last line of the TV miniseries Chernobyl, which over the course of its five episodes, answers the question thusly: 600,000 men conscripted, 300,000 people displaced, and up to 93,000 dead. But according to the Soviet […]