A group of six tourists looking to go off the beaten path, hire an 'extreme tour guide' who, ignoring warnings, takes them into the city of Pripyat, the former home to the workers of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor, but now a deserted town since the disaster more than 25 years earlier. After a brief exploration of the abandoned city, the group members find themselves stranded, only to discover that they are not alone.
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Very well executed
I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.
It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...
The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.
Waste of time, makes me angry watching this kind of crap
Chernobyl, Pripyat, the whole area in real life is tailor made for delivering really good horror/suspense, like STALKER game did and Stalker movie years before the game.Instead of coming up with something new and actually scary, Chernobyl Diaries (CD) instead tries to mix Descent with The Hills Have Eyes (except with comically bad monster masks from Halloween store) and fails to give you horror and thrills of either of the movies it is trying to rip-off.While the movie started out fine, with tourists stuck in the hell-hole of Pripyat, the moment it actually starts delivering the "scares", you can kiss all atmosphere goodbye.The director first throws a bear at you for a cheap jump scare, then dogs, yes DOGS, simple dogs which are just hungry.. then they bring out the cliché-fest of cannibals. And they fail at using any of them to actually scare the audience. In-fact, the cannibals apparently spend their time standing in darkness camping and waiting for camera to face them so they can pull a tourist back trying to jump "scare" the audience. They do that till the last shot (last shot is a jump "scare" as well). This is a movie made by someone who thinks jump "scares" are actually scary and not startling.Lemme put it this way. I was expecting Blair Witch like psychological horror set in Chernobyl, but I got hilariously bad "horror" similar to the overrated comedy-horror movies like Insidious and Paranormal Activity (I think PA is actually scarier than this movie haha). This was just bad.This movie is so disappointing that while writing this review, I lowered my score from 3/10 to 1/10.So watch it if you like being disappointed. This movie delivers on that front.
I wish I would have known that the screenplay was written by Shane Van Dyke, and if you don't know who that is, he directed a movie called Titanic II (yes, it's a real movie). Had I been aware of this unfortunate fact, I would have been spared of wasting 88 minutes on this laughably bad The Hills Have Eyes rip-off. In Chernobyl Diaries, six tourists hire a tour guide to take them into the abandoned city of Pripyat, where workers for the Chernobyl nuclear reactor used to live. After a few lame jump scares, the crew begins to suspect that the town isn't completely abandoned. Oren Peli came up with the story, and it's pretty obvious since there's not much action until the very end. This has never been much of a problem for me as long as the movie can conjure up a creepy atmosphere and some good suspense. What this movie does instead is try to scare the audience with a ton of fake jump scares and age-old clichés. It doesn't make for an entertaining movie when the characters keep making the same stupid mistakes every other movie character has made before. Watching a bunch of dimwits getting killed off in the dark is just predictable. However, the real atrocity here is the cinematography. For the first thirty minutes of the film, I was convinced this was a found footage flick because of how god damn shaky the camera was. It looked like this was filmed by a blender. Other than a decently interesting setting, Chernobyl Diaries is an embarrassingly awful movie that uses all the worst horror tropes.
The town of Pripyat seems so real. This is really well done. And it adds to how real it feels when people start disappearing and something living in the abandoned city is out to get them.Excellent horror-movie. Well acted, believable characters, good story.And even though there is nothing threatening in Pripyat in real life apart from radiation, I still can't help thinking what if something is hiding in the buildings? One of the best horror-movies i've seen in a long time.I can definitely recommend this.That was 10 lines.