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Chernobyl Diaries (2012)

Director:
Bradley Parker
COUNTRY
USA
GENRE
Horror
NORWEGIAN TITLE
Chernobyl Diaries
RUNNING TIME
86 minutes
Producer:
Oren Peli
Brian Witten
Bradley Parker
Screenwriter:
Oren Peli
Carey Van Dyke
Shane Van Dyke


Cast includes:

CHARACTER ACTOR/ACTRESS RATING
Chris Jesse McCartney
Paul Jonathan Sadowski ½
Amanda Devin Kelley ½
Natalie Olivia Taylor Dudley ½
Michael Nathan Phillips ½
Zoe Ingrid Bolsų Berdal
Yuri Dimitri Diatchenko ½

 

Review

Having been fascinated by ghost towns for a while, a film set in Prypiat, the ghost town left behind after the Chernobyl disaster in 1986, seemed liked an intriguing idea to me. Large, secluded areas and a number of deserted apartment blocks, surrounded by the wild nature about to reclaim the once bubbling town. And it all starts out well, as it often does in these kinds of horror movies: A group of young, adventurous and beautiful people go on a guided trip to Prypiat with a cowboy type guide who is sure to cause them problems. Not surprisingly, something happens, our heroes must spend the night in the deserted town, and the filmmakers - having created a fine premise - have a well of opportunities to create anything from an original horror classic to a scientifically oriented suspense film. Still they manage to screw everything up, by plundering the vault of cliches of course. Keywords: dull George Romero-ish creatures, chases, screams, stupid characters. How many uninventive horror movies do we have to endure before people stop watching them entirely?

Copyright © 16.02.2013 Fredrik Gunerius Fevang

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