The first important question: Why “Death Zone”? Why does the film have this name? Unfortunately, I have to go into a little more detail to answer this question. There are actually three sources for this.
1. The mountain zone
Mountaineers understand the death zone to be the altitude at which the oxygen content of the air becomes so low that a prolonged stay at this altitude is life-threatening.
2. Foucault’s Pendulum
Foucault’s Pendulum is a novel by Italian author Umberto Eco, published in 1995. The actual aim of the novel is to show how conspiracy theories arise and what major effects they can have. Even the inventors of such esoteric theories cannot defend themselves against the influence of their ideas. Reality and fantasy merge and create a powerful new idea.
One of the ideas in the novel is that the Knights Templar want to use so-called “telluric currents” to determine the fate of humanity. If there are “magical currents,” what could be more obvious than the existence of “magical fields”? Magical zones. Deadly zones.
3. Ley lines
Lay lines (sometimes also called “sacred lines”) are straight lines connecting landmarks such as megaliths, prehistoric cult sites, and churches. Esotericists attribute extraordinary properties to them. Everything is connected: the Pyramids of Giza, Machu Picchu, Stonehenge, and many other cultural sites. Ley lines are energy currents. Control these streams and you will control the world. Here, too, the idea suggests itself that if there are sacred streams, there must also be sacred zones.
All these thoughts have given rise to the idea of “death zones.” Zones where different laws of nature apply. Zones where new developments are possible. But also zones where events are no longer linear in time. These are dangerous areas, and in some places even deadly.
An ideal place to tell stories.
