"... 'Stalker' is Eighth Tower's tribute to the cinematic masterpiece 'Stalker' (1979) by Russian director Andrej Tarkowskij. Tarkowskij 's second science fiction film after Solaris, 'Stalker' is based on a novel by the Strugackij brothers, Arkadij and Boris, renowned authors of Soviet science fiction. ... The Zone is primarily the interior of a rural territory that has been disrupted by an unspecified event, perhaps the fall of a meteorite or the passage of an extraterrestrial spacecraft. Within it, strange and mysterious events occur, and many people have disappeared. ...
The world of 'Stalker,' filmed in Estonia, Russia, and Tajikistan, is a science fiction of inner space, reminiscent of Ballard, a dreamlike space. Leaning light poles, debris, abandoned huts. The film's world is heavily degraded and contaminated by trash, debris, and wreckage. A damp world, flooded, with puddles and rain. ..."
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