Chernobyl Diaries

Chernobyl Diaries Poster
release date May 25 2012
studio Warner Bros. / Alcon / FilmNation
director Brad Parker
writer Oren Peli
starring Jonathan Sadowski, Devin Kelley, Jesse McCartney, Olivia Taylor Dudley, Nathan Phillips, Ingrid Bolso Berdal, Dimitry Diatchenko
rating
R
tagline Experience the Fallout
trailer 1 Trailer #1

Synopsis

Tale of friends who discover they are not alone after they become stranded in a ghost town overrun by nature.

Long: A group of friends become stranded in an eerie and desolate city. Years before in the aftermath of a nuclear disaster, nature has begun to reclaim everything. As the sun sets on this radioactive ghost town, inhuman cries cut through the night air. It seems they are not alone.

Official Review

All the marketing behind Chernobyl Diaries had led me to expect a laborious, found-footage-done-wrong slog of a movie. While I’ve liked some of the stuff Oren Peli has been associated with – chiefly Paranormal Activity 1 and Paranormal Activity 3 – I just couldn’t muster up much excitement for this project. It seemed like a cheap and easy way to drop a bunch of characters into a famous locale and attempt to let the audience’s previously conceived notions about the place do all of the heavy lifting. …Read More

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Official Score: 3 / 5