Chernobyl Diaries

Other mistake: At the end, we learn that the predators are escaped patients from a hospital, ostensibly horribly mutated survivors of the accident. But if they've "escaped" into Pripyat, the hospital must be located inside the exclusion zone, and why in the world would they use a hospital there? All patients and staff were evacuated from the Pripyat hospital on April 29th 1986.

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Suggested correction: The exclusion zone is only 30km. A hospital could have been built or other structure repurposed outside of the EZ. Simply walking at a normal pace, one can easily traverse 30km in a single day. Also, it's not an actual hospital that treats sick people. It's a clandestine operation to perform experiments on these mutated individuals.

Factual error: The idea that anyone survived living long term in Pripyat Hospital is absurd. At the time the film was set the hospital was still radioactive and prolonged exposure by living there would be fatal. Nobody could survive on the grounds for more than two or three months without receiving a lethal dose of radioactivity. Incidentally, prolonged exposure to radioactivity doesn't turn you into a deranged zombie - it turns you into a corpse.

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