That's not to say there aren't a few real scares, but it's not a good sign when audience members can see through the intended frights. While the film delivers some intended humor, many of the laughs came from things intended to be scary but were lame. They hear noises in the buildings and nearby woods, and do not have a clue who or what is making them.
Neither Uri nor the tourists act rationally, and things get worse for them - a lot worse. When the tourists return to the van after their two-hour side trip, the car won't start, and it's starting to get dark. Also imagine the radiation in the area slowly poisoning your body. Chernobyl Diaries 5.0 1 h X-Ray R Uri guides six young tourists through the abandoned town where the families of the workers of Chernobyl nuclear plant use to live.
Imagine a city of quiet and deserted Attebury grain elevators strewn with personal belongings. The mood of Pripyat is effectively scary. Perhaps the gregarious, Adidas track suit-wearing tour guide should have known better and turned his van back after the Russian military turned him away at the city gates.īut the tourists are too hungry to bask in another country's catastrophe, so he takes them into the city via another route. That's when Paul engages Uri (Dimitri Diatchenko), a travel guide, to take them to a ghost city named Pripyat, where workers from Chernobyl lived before the town was evacuated.Ī nondescript foreign couple named Zoe (Ingrid Boiso Berdal) and Michael (Nathan Phillips) also are part of the group. They are on their way to Moscow, where Chris intends to propose to Natalie. Natalie's friend, a quiet photographer named Amanda (Devin Kelley), is along for the ride. The creator of Paranormal Activity brings his brand of horror to this thriller about young tourists stranded among the remains of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor.
In the film, twenty-something blonde Natalie (Olivia Dudley) and uptight Chris (Jesse McCartney) are visiting his overbearing brother, Paul (Jonathan Sadowski), in Kiev. Schöpfer der Serie ist Craig Mazin.Die Regie führte Johan Renck.In den Hauptrollen sind Jared Harris, Stellan Skarsgård und Emily Watson zu sehen. The problem is it's hard to be invested in such dense characters, even when the terrors begin to ratchet up. Chernobyl ist eine US-amerikanisch-britische Miniserie der Sender HBO und Sky über die Nuklearkatastrophe von Tschernobyl.Die Serie wurde vom 6. The city surroundings are well-done and frightening on their own and create an effective mood. Instead, the filmmakers spend an awful lot of time showing how dim these tourists actually are as they make mistake after mistake on their way to a couple of bad days in a scary ghost town. The story sounds like a setup for what could have been a thrilling, cheaply shot horror film about ghosts, goblins and nocturnal irradiated monsters. WarnerBros.Nothing quite brings out the dumb in people more than being on vacation.Ĭase in point: "Chernobyl Diaries," in which six tourists pay a former Russian special forces soldier (now a tour guide) to take them to a deserted city next to the Chernobyl nuclear plant. the former home to the workers of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor, but now a deserted town since the disaster more than 25.