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I think that's a key question you have to ask yourself. If you need to see visceral, bloody horror and horrific make-up and cgi directly in your face in order to be scared, then CHERNOBYL DIARIES is not for you. This is a horror movie that is more for the "What you don't see is even scarier then what you do see" crowd. I felt like this was a very well-shot, tense thriller. The atmosphere of the film quite effectively isolated and creepy.The ending is a bit on the weak side, but it doesn't trump the journey to get there.This is a great little flick to watch in a darkened theatre with a bag of buttered popcorn.

This COULD have been a great film. The idea behind it and the setting builds tension and the first half of the film isn't bad. The second half lets it down. Poor cinematography means half the time you have no clue whats going on. Many of the shots are just to dark to be able to see around the characters leading to confusion as to what exactly is going on. The ending is also half done. It was like the writers just shoved it in there as an extra with no thought.Its sad because its well acted and has some good startle scares unfortunately most of these are in the trailer.Wait for the DVD,

Interesting premise that starts really well with a sort of fly on the wall docudrama feel but steadily declines into sub prime territory. Six American/Australian tourists on the 'Grand Tour" find themselves in Kiev and go on an extreme tourism trip to Chernobyl and of course it all goes wrong. The initial set up is creepy and highly credible but when the horror starts the credibility goes out the window.Each and every horror trope gets an outing and every bad decision (i.e. don't go into the basement) plays out, one by one.The end result is a bit of a shambles. Disappointing.