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

12 Jun 2012

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…