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Chernobyl: Abyss

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Directed by Danila Kozlovsky

The aftermath of a shocking explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power station made hundreds of people sacrifice their lives to clean up the site of the catastrophe and to successfully prevent an even bigger disaster that could have turned a large part of the European continent into an uninhabitable exclusion zone. This is their story. From TMDB

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Chernobyl: Abyss is a 2021 drama history action film, directed by Danila Kozlovsky, starring Danila Kozlovsky, Oksana Akinshina and Philipp Avdeev.

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  • DashboTreeFrog @[email protected]Lemmy · Jun 27, 2026

    What TV shows are absolutely worth watching?. I haven't been watching much in terms of actual shows for a good while, then while listening to a podcast a host casually mentioned they had rewatched Chernobyl, how it still holds up, that there's a reason it got as much acclaim as it did, etc. So I thought I'd give it a go and wow, loved it (still one episode left to watch). Had me thinking, what else have I missed out on? What are some "absolute cinema" TV shows that still hold up and and are…

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  • A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 23, 2026

    CHERNOBYL, is, in my opinion, very good. letterboxd.com/andrewmoxon/...

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  • Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 25, 2026

    Also I can't stop being amazed that Craig Mazin, who previously had been known for such films as Super Hero Movie and Scary Movie 4 pulled off something as incredible as Chernobyl. Guess I should probably watch The Last of Us...

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  • Phobia @phobia.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 28, 2026

    Is there a better horror movie than the first episode of Chernobyl, or rather a more frightening stomach turning one. Gets me every time.

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  • Bob Chipman ("MovieBob") @bobchipman.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 30, 2026

    The main joke of this movie - writer/director of 'THE LAST OF US' and 'CHERNOBYL!' 😲 was essentially "After a decade of this genre being popular (X-Men in '99 to Spider-Man3, essentially) it's kinda all played out, huh?" ...it released in March 23, 2008 - basically *one month* before 'IRON MAN'

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  • Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 25, 2025

    The movie opening of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is closer to the Chernobyl disaster than it is to today.

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  • HearthFox ΘΔ @hearthfox.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 11, 2024

    *watching Aliens and noticing the alien hive architecture as well as it's location under the colony reactor and wonders if it was a reference to the elephants foot at Chernobyl* In fact, the film opens with a scan of blue light similar in color to cherenkov radiation.

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  • ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 7, 2025

    3/ 'Dirty Harry. Igor Gomelsky' retorts that this is the level of understanding that you get when "you studied the history of the Chernobyl disaster from the film by Dani Kozlovsky. Dear Mother!" (The 2021 movie Chernobyl: Abyss is a factually challenged 'patriotic' take on the disaster.)

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  • Zoe TunnHELL ➡️ NYCC @zoewithasword.bsky.socialBluesky · May 13, 2026

    It's not a movie, but it's a 5 episode miniseries so CLOSE ENOUGH HBO's Chernobyl It is depressing and horrifying and full of senseless human loss But it is also full of human brilliance and perseverance in the face of one of the most terrifying things on the planet I love it

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  • 👻Really Spooky Smith👻 @reallyseansmith.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 11, 2025

    If you ever get in a rut and think you can never adapt and improve, just remember that the same guy who wrote Scary Movie 4 (2006) also created goddamn Chernobyl (2017).

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  • Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 31, 2025

    I hope in the third Sisu movie we find out the old man caused the Chernobyl explosion because someone made a mean comment about his dog.

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  • HearthFox ΘΔ @hearthfox.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 12, 2024

    The Chernobyl disaster happened only THREE MONTHS before the film was released so while an interesting coincidence it was DEFINITELY not a reference

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  • UAE Exotic Falconry & Finance𓅃 @falconryfinance.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 29, 2025

    A lot of the Chernobyl HBO series is people hanging out in the dark and looking at stuff while creepy music plays because how you gonna film radiation

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  • Sorrel @sorrelish.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 28, 2026

    Finally gotten round to watching Chernobyl and nobody warned me that the first episode is the scariest horror movie I have ever seen ever.

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  • Aurelia Verity @aureliaverity.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 12, 2026

    This was animated in Kyiv as the USSR disintegrated into chaos and Chernobyl fallout was raining from the sky. With that context the unhinged quality of this movie really makes sense.

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  • Aurelia Verity @aureliaverity.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 30, 2025

    As someone who knew people who lived through the death of stalin period irl that movie is a hoot. I feel like all movies about messy historical events can be graded on a scale with "Chernobyl" on one end and "Death of Stalin" on the other and it's whatever is in the middle that's insufferable.

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  • Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.socialBluesky · May 3, 2024

    Didn't hate the new Seinfeld movie. Mediocre, but not the celluloid Chernobyl that the first critics saw. letterboxd.com/daveweigel/f...

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  • Rolivers @[email protected]Lemmy · Oct 8, 2026

    From the HBO show Chernobyl. It's really well made and worth watching.

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  • jodyvanb @jodyvanb.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 12, 2025

    We were just watching “Coraline” for our “Hallowe’en Film“ of the day and my 18yo exclaims,”can you pause it?! I think that guy is wearing a Chernobyl liquidator medal!“ Just a random factoid burned into my kid’s brain for some reason? “Uhh,how did you know that?” “I read a lot about Chernobyl“.

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  • Robert Stribley @stribs.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 26, 2025

    “Every frame of this film serves as evidence in the case of the unprecedented war crime — the occupation of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. We use this footage not only as the basis for future legal proceedings, but also as a way to rethink documentary filmmaking.” — Oleksiy Radynski, Director

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  • ol_capt_joe @[email protected]Lemmy · Oct 25, 2026

    There's a quote from HBO's Chernobyl series: > To be a scientist is to be naive. We are so focused on our search for the truth we fail to consider how few actually want us to find it. But it is always there whether we see it or not, whether we choose to or not. The truth doesn't care about our needs or wants, it doesn't care about our governments, our ideologies, our religions. It will lie in wait for all time. And this, at last, is the gift of Chernobyl. Where I once would fear the cost…

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  • VERTICAL📼BLANKING📺INTERVAL @vertiblank.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 25, 2026

    When he was dropping bits of Cruz lore during the 2016 election, he was only known as the guy who wrote some of The Hangover and Scary Movie films. Chernobyl was quite the departure.

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  • 𖤐 Bri 𖤐 @brianimator.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 14, 2025

    rewatched CHERNOBYL over the weekend. What a gripping story because of how evil and corrupt the govt was and how resilient the people were. So many lessons to learn from this tragic event. My ★★★★★ review on @letterboxd.social boxd.it/8rMCl5

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  • Dan Douglas @dandouglas.bsky.socialBluesky · May 10, 2026

    this dude’s CV pinballs around maybe more than George Miller – Scary Movie 3, Chernobyl, The Last of Us and

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  • CineCalendar @cinecalendar.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 26, 2025

    Apr 26th 1986 - There was an explosion at the #Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. Depicted in the award winning HBO TV Mini Series, Chernobyl (2019), and used as a plot device in the none award winning horror movie Chernobyl Diaries (2012) 📽️📅 Depicted in Chernobyl Diaries (2012)

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  • Flipboard Science Desk @[email protected]Mastodon · Jul 4, 2026

    Ever since the Unit Four reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded in 1986, many kinds of life-forms moved in and thrived. One in particular stands out. @ScienceAlert has more on the wall-clinging black fungus that seems to be living its best life: https://flip.it/IaTtz7 #Science #Chernobyl #Nature

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  • lex luddy needs a nap @lexluddy.xyzBluesky · Mar 16, 2025

    Getting upset that a movie didn't make money for Warner Bros. at the moment is like warning a Chernobyl worker that they shouldn't smoke mid-meltdown because it's bad for their health.

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  • Paladin Feora 🌕🛡🌑 @paladinfeora.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 1, 2026

    What was the last movie or show you watched in 2025? Chernobyl. Seen it so many times, still hits as hard as the first time I watched it.

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  • Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 16, 2025

    Didn’t the guy who’s making this show and Chernobyl come from like a DATE MOVIE background or something? That rocks

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  • Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.comBluesky · Jan 30, 2026

    As @derekgottliebphd.com and I unpack in our podcast Control Room, the Chernobyl disaster stemmed directly from the corners the Soviet nuclear industry cut to save to money, even as they were claiming the facilities were safe. podcasts.apple.com/sg/podcast/c...

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  • James Corck 🦅 ❤️ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @jamescorck.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 30, 2024

    Today, Movie Slate talks about the fantastic 1993 HBO series "Chernobyl" - askmovieslate.tumblr.com/post/7491849... Excellent series. #AskBlog #WebComic #Chernobyl #MLPOC #Pony #Unicorn

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  • Tim Price @timprice.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 23, 2026

    I see where you're coming from but no I don't think the HBO mini-series Chernobyl should be included in your Halloween movie sale

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  • dead deeri @deerea.rsBluesky · Apr 28, 2026

    "what American event would you make in the style of Chernobyl" they already made it, it's called Margin Call, and no movie so poignantly illustrates how capitalism is designed to devour itself whole

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  • David Hollingsworth 🏳️‍🌈 @daveyh39.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 15, 2026

    Happy 59th Birthday to the great Emily Watson, Oscar/Emmy-nominated British film, stage, television, and radio actress, acclaimed for her breathtaking roles/performances in BREAKING THE WAVES, ANGELA'S ASHES, GOSFORD PARK, PUNCH-DRUNK LOVE, SYNECDOCHE, NEW YORK; and CHERNOBYL, and more.

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  • Jess Zafarris @jesszafarris.comBluesky · Jan 23, 2025

    Immediately after I finished rereading it, I learned they're making a movie of Devil in the White City—and while I'm excited about any adaptation, I am disappointed that we're not getting a full-scale HBO miniseries. (The folks who made Chernobyl would crush it!)

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  • lex luddy needs a nap @lexluddy.xyzBluesky · Feb 6, 2026

    I get we're at a point in time where people this age do actually like video games, so we are going to see things like Zach Cregger want to make a Resident Evil movie, but like, since Chernobyl, he's done TLoU, wrote a Borderlands script that may or may not have been the one filmed, and now this.

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  • Helen McCarthy @helenmccarthy51.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 8, 2026

    Multi-award-winning photographer and film-maker Seiichi Motohashi, 85, who documented everyday lives in #Japan and the impact of the 1986 #Chernobyl disaster on villages, has died of old age, his family announced this week. May he rest in peace. mainichi.jp/english/arti...

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  • arachnocapitalist @arachno.capitalBluesky · Jan 7, 2026

    me: to chill out a bit I'm going to watch The Hunt for Red October (1990), the only good Jack Ryan movie which I've loved since I was ten years old the Red October's cryogenic plant: *breaks down* me: welp apparently Chernobyl is my new comfort watch, get rekt Comrade Dyatlov

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  • Nadia H. Slimegirl @nadia.kindgirls.onlineBluesky · Apr 5, 2026

    Just watched the deepwater horizon movie and, like Chernobyl, there is something so incredibly powerful about people climbing into hell to save others from it. Manmade casualties by people who don’t care cleaned up by those who care with every fiber of their being.

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  • Emily @eks08.bsky.socialBluesky · May 9, 2025

    And maybe instead of watching the ‘bird man’ movie about Alcatraz.. he should watch the hbo show Chernobyl/how many deaths were covered up by the Soviet Union 🤷🏻‍♀️

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  • Lukas @gaymingbear.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 8, 2023

    I swear if I see Timothee Chernobyl cast as Link in that movie I’m burying my switch

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  • Intergalactic Ape-Man @interfilmreisen.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 31, 2026

    I had lived through too many changes as a child to not be terrified by Invaders From Mars. A little brother, moving, being trapped from Chernobyl radiation, learning there's no Santa, being forced into school. This movie felt like I just hadn't found the underground base yet. #NowWatching #FilmSky

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  • Courtland Funke @courtlandfunke.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 19, 2026

    I can't tell if you're surprised it was written by the guy who wrote Chernobyl and Last of us or that it was written by the guy who wrote Scary Movie 3 and 4.

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  • jtcarroll.bsky.social @jtcarroll.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 30, 2026

    If you like the focus on bureaucracy in Chernobyl then check out The Days on Netflix. It's about the Fukishima disaster. Not as good as Chernobyl but nothing is. This is also why I think Shin Godzilla is the best recent Godzilla movie. It is a commentary on Fukishima.

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  • Stuart Webb @inflatabledalek.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 17, 2026

    The incredible thing is, the film is probably kinder on the Klingon incompetence that caused SPACE Chernobyl than was the case with the Russians in reality.

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  • nick! @wah.blueBluesky · Sep 1, 2025

    I'm in that part of the shorts algorithm where it's just showing me movie clips so I think I need to watch Chernobyl today

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  • HT Burbridge @burbridgeht.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 5, 2024

    #2SongsSameTitle Here We Go 🍃 Q-Tip & Chiddy Bang youtu.be/rbsdifdFRFU?... 🍃 Arab Strap youtu.be/eMLluLqpE9w?... 🇸🇪 Because I didn’t learn until today that Stakka Bo aka Johan Renck was a music & film director (Chernobyl, Bowie, Beach House etc) youtu.be/TRH35PWLC-c?... #MusicChallenge

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  • Sean Northridge @seannorthridge.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 2, 2026

    Had the weirdest dream, a Michael Crichton-style movie where a post-apocalyptic future sends someone back to the Chernobyl disaster to drop an antimatter charge into the reactor just as it explodes. It prevents the bad future but creates our timeline instead. Weirdly awesome. In a Congo way.

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  • Railmaps @railmaps.com.auBluesky · Apr 26, 2026

    And finally, my last shot of the day before the light disappeared (or perhaps my Kodachrome film was starting to cop radiation from Chernobyl which I didn't yet know about), here is single car Redhen 418 at Midlunga station - displaying an incorrect route designator!

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  • Berg on a Wire @bergonawire.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 7, 2026

    #AprilMovieChallenge Communist in a movie/TV show Cheating with TV for...... Chernobyl (2019) Stellan Skarsgärd plays Boris Shcherbina who supervises the Chernobyl clean up (and you totally end up respecting by the end of the mini-series) youtube.com/watch?v=2Qje...

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  • Service Heckhound 🏳️‍⚧️🐕‍🦺 🔜 MFF, Magfest @harleighdog.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 22, 2026

    the 2019 HBO Max 'Chernobyl' miniseries is one of my top fucked-up comfort watches the 2006 Silent Hill movie, too sometimes I just wanna watch a place melt, I guess 🤷🏼‍♂️

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  • Ange | Author A. M. Shilling @gunsmile.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 14, 2025

    #FantasyIndiesApril Day 14: I actually have an entire Spotify playlist dedicated to my WIP! It's a mix of the JOHN WICK, CHERNOBYL, and SICARIO soundtracks with a dash of COLOR OUT OF SPACE (yes, the movie with Nic Cage). #WritingCommunity

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  • Spooky Robb from 8/16/32bit @81632bitretro.comBluesky · Jul 24, 2026

    weird accomplishments: Smuggled 1000 ibuprofen tablets into a Belarusian orphanage for children with Chernobyl related birth defects. Got a standing ovation for taking a shop dummy dressed as Blue Hawaii era Elvis into a film screening.

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  • Adele @theartofcharts.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 3, 2026

    I find I keep going back to the same things: Samuel Delany's Tales of Neveryon (which is odd, because I don't write fantasy - and they'd be almost mpossible to film), Ursula Le Guin's The Language of the Night. Mazin's Chernobyl crawled into my head and took up residence. #scriptsky #scriptchat

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  • Kate Cox @kcoxdc.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 1, 2026

    Watching Star Trek VI (with two unwilling kids) today and man, not knowing about Chernobyl or the USSR or the end of the Soviet Union really changes your understanding of the film I guess lol (I was about my elder kid's current age when it came out in theaters.)

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  • Chain Bear @stuartcb.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 22, 2025

    I still can't believe Craig Mazin, of Chernobyl and Last of Us, made a fucking film about Sheep trying to solve the mystery of Hugh Jackman's murder

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  • Michael Campbell @moviemikec.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 27, 2025

    #TheChinaSyndrome on #TCMParty I remember when that movie came out and there was the Three Mile Island disaster and we were afraid all those plants would blow up, and then Chernobyl happened 6 years later.

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  • Olli Werewolf @owolf.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 13, 2025

    Very good movie, great cast and very unsettling story. Reminded me of that brilliant Chernobyl mini series too much. I don’t think I’m going to watch it again soon (I mean both).

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  • Boovacado Ghost @bavacadotoast.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 15, 2025

    This movie came out the same year that Chernobyl happened.

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  • Philo of Alexan @philoof.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 13, 2025

    😬 this is reminding me of the Soviet party officials in the Chernobyl film.

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