Chernobyl Diaries (2012, United States)

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Running time: 85 minutes

Language: English

Locations: the story takes place in PripyatKievUkraine

Chernobyl Diaries 2012 American mystery classic movie review

While on vacation in Europe, American couple, Chris and Natalie, make a short stop in Kiev to visit Chris’ brother, Paul, before heading to Moscow, where Chris plans to propose to Natalie. Paul comes up with an idea of taking them on a trip to the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, an area closed from civilian access after the 1986 nuclear disaster. Chris is reluctant to go, but finally agrees to join Paul and his girlfriend. Together with two more tourists, they hire a local guide, Yuri, who takes them in his van into the exclusion zone. During their visit to the abandoned city of Pripyat, formerly inhabited by Chernobyl nuclear power plant workers, they visit the empty houses. In one of them they hear strange noises, and in one of the apartments they stumble upon a bear. Even though he seemed to be more scared of them than they of him, Yuri decides they have to head back to the van. He wants to leave the zone before the nightfall. When they reach the car, Yuri can’t start the engine. It turns out that something or someone destroyed some of the electric cables. The night is coming, and they are stuck in a small van in the middle of an exclusion zone with no contact with the outside world. To make things worse, they still have no idea who could have destroyed the cables in an area, where there are no people...

Interesting idea (although it seems to be inspired by the Stalker computer games) for the story to be set in the exclusion area around Chernobyl, where empty houses and dark tunnels are creating an amazing atmosphere. Unfortunately, the creators used only a very limited part of the potential that Pripyat creates, and the interesting mystery movie quickly turns into an average horror flick. Still, it is a decent production comparing to most of the horror productions.

Creators of Chernobyl Diaries

	Bradley Parker	director
	Carey Van Dyke	screenplay
	Shane Van Dyke	screenplay
	Oren Peli	screenplay

Cast of Chernobyl Diaries

	Ingrid Bolsoe Berdal	as Zoe
	Olivia Dudley	as Natalie
	Devin Kelley	as Amanda
	Jesse McCartney	as Chris
	Nathan Phillips	as Michael
	Jonathan Sadowski	as Paul
	Dimitri Diatchenko	as Yuri

Chernobyl Diaries comments

Another half-baked idea for a horror - take an empty town and make it eerie. They found an empty town, the eerie was barely there... And less said about the ending is better
Jeezaz (14-08-2024 11:18:19)

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