“In the industrial town of Pančevo a dangerous biochemical toxine becomes airborne in the middle of the night, poisoning the inhabitants. The infection spreads all over the town and it seems like the Armageddon is happening.
Meanwhile, a police-escorted prisoner transport supervised by Interpol sets off to Belgrade. A seemingly routine assignment escalates into a hellish fight for survival. The route leads the transport through Pančevo, where they encounter an ecological disaster and infected people who are trying to kill them. Interpol agent Mortimer Reyes soon realizes that their only chance for escape from the zombie hordes lies in allying with the dangerous, mysterious prisoner…”
This synopsis of the upcoming movie The Zone of the Dead is from Ken Foree’s website and is a good intro in the first Serbian zombie movie ever. You can find some photos from the set and still from the movie on the offical site, as well as on some other blogs following zombie movies, Zombie reporting center and Arrow in the head. The film is to be released at the end of this year.
At the same time, it’s much more frightening than the movie itself that the Pancevo situation (earlier discussed here on the blog is not getting any better, it’s almost as if they can add “based on a true story” to the movie tagline.
