Chernobyl Diaries

If nowhere near as scary as the original Paranormal, the result is superior to many of the low-budget terror flicks that have arrived since (yes, The Devil Inside, we're talking about you) and benefits hugely from Dimitri Diatchenko's performance as moviedom's Worst. Tour. Guide. Ever.

Scattered stretches of suspense and a few undeniably potent shocks are not enough to dissipate the sense of deja vu that prevails throughout Chernobyl Diaries, a wearyingly predictable thriller about "extreme tourists."

Diaries is dark and gruesome, but with little in the way of genuine shock or surprise, you should expect the expected.

In Chernobyl Diaries, directed by Bradley Parker, stupidity is taken to extremes.

The lack of suspense and surprise in this dispiritingly rote film becomes its own form of contamination.

The movie wants us to find this frightening, but there's no suspense, no terrifying images.

You might actively root for their collective demise, if you could rouse yourself to care one way or the other. Go gallivanting in Chernobyl and you get what you pay for, nimrods.

[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]

The idea is fairly unique and creative making for and interesting plot, however It's dim scenes and shaky camera movements make for a difficult ride. So interesting it deserves a sequel (A shot at redemption)

Chernobyl Diaries in an effective thriller, but only good at most. It is shot in the style of Paranormal Activity, except the story that captivated millions in Paranormal doesn't show here. Instead, we have a shell of a horror movie that has many clichés and flaws, but is worth a look-see. Well, at least a look-see at the last half hour, because the rest of the movie is just filler.

Thrill-seeking tourists embark on an "extreme sightseeing" trek inside Pripyat, a long-abandoned suburb which overlooks the ruins of Chernobyl. As appropriately spooky locales go, there's no denying the authenticity of this one. We've all probably seen photos of this hastily-abandoned Soviet city floating around the internet, and if there's a creepier place on the planet, I haven't been notified. In addition to being naturally disturbing in dozens of ways, Pripyat is also monumentally photogenic, which makes it all the more disappointing that it's been wasted on such a generic, by-the-numbers taste of scream fodder. Poorly acted (if I'm being generous), with a series of random, unrelated threats that may have been plucked straight from a grab bag of overdone horror movie clichés, the vast majority of the action is fueled by small bands of survivors shuffling through the darkness in search of comrades they already know to be dead meat. Surely they're down here, at the bottom of another steep, grimy industrial staircase!

I am not a fan of this genera of movie. I am normally a scaredy cat but this movie didn't even make me flinch. The acting was horrid, it even made me laugh it was so bad. I liked the idea of being in Chernonyl and the exposer to radiation. I think they could have done it a lot better than they did.