In an unnamed country at an unspecified time, there is a fiercely protected post-apocalyptic wasteland known as The Zone. An illegal guide, whose mutant child suggests unspeakable horrors within The Zone, leads a writer and a scientist into the heart of the devastation in search of a mythical place known only as The Room. Anyone who enters The Room will supposedly have any of his earthly desires immediately fulfilled.

We have a new feature for 2023. We are giving over some of our programming to our volunteers, customers, and Monday Night Film Club regulars to choose an all-time favourite film or new release to be shown at the RBCT. Dr Connor McMorran chose the classic Soviet sci-fi Stalker which appeared at #42 in last year’s Sight and Sound Top 100 films of all-time poll. Hear why, and lots more, in his introduction to this afternoon's screening.