Chernobyl Diaries

- 2012
- US
- 1h 27min
- 15
- Directed by: Bradley Parker
- Written by: Shane Van Dyke, Carey Van Dyke
- Cast: Jesse McCartney, Jonathan Sadowski, Olivia Dudley
- UK release: 22 June 2012
- Website: chernobyldiaries.warnerbros.com/index.html
Chris (McCartney) and his friends seek 'extreme tourism', so they hire unreliable Uri (Diatchenko) to take them to Pripyat, abandoned since the Chernobyl disaster: cue radioactive mutant attack. It lacks both suspense and good ideas, and setting a horror flick on the site of a real-life tragedy has a distasteful edge.
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Chernobyl Diaries


Hostel-style tourist trip horror that’s lacking in suspense
From Oren Peli, producer of the Paranormal Activity series, comes yet another entry in the tourist trap cycle spawned by Eli Roth’s considerably superior Hostel. In Chernobyl Diaries, a group of US tourists find themselves engaged in bloody conflict on…
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