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Directed by | Brad Parker |
Produced by |
Oren Peli Brian Witten |
Screenplay by | Oren Peli Carey Van Dyke Shane Van Dyke |
Story by | Oren Peli |
Starring |
Jesse McCartney Jonathan Sadowski Devin Kelley Olivia Taylor Dudley Nathan Phillips Ingrid Bolso Berdal Dimitri Diatchenko |
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Cinematography | Morten Søborg |
Edited by | Stan Stalfas |
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Warner Bros. Pictures (United States) StudioCanal (United Kingdom) |
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86 minutes (USA) 88 minutes (UK) |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $1 million |
Box office | $37.2 million |
Chernobyl Diaries is a 2012 American disaster horror film directed by Brad Parker and produced by Oren Peli, who also wrote the story. It stars Jesse McCartney, Jonathan Sadowski, Devin Kelley, Olivia Taylor Dudley, Nathan Phillips, Ingrid Bolsø Berdal, and Dimitri Diatchenko. It was shot on locations in Pripyat, Hungary and Serbia.
Chris (Jesse McCartney), his girlfriend Natalie (Olivia Taylor Dudley), and their mutual friend Amanda (Devin Kelley), are traveling across Europe. They stop in Kiev, Ukraine, to visit Chris's brother, Paul (Jonathan Sadowski), before heading on to Moscow, Russia, where Chris intends to propose to Natalie.
Paul suggests they go for an "extreme tour" of Pripyat, an abandoned town which sits in the shadow of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. Chris is against going on the tour because of the potential danger and would rather stay on the original plan of going to Moscow. They meet tour guide Yuri (Dimitri Diatchenko), and are joined by a backpacking couple, Norwegian Zoe (Ingrid Bolsø Berdal) and Australian Michael (Nathan Phillips). Yuri drives them through the wilds of Ukraine, before they arrive at a Chernobyl Exclusion Zone checkpoint, where they are refused entry by the Ukrainian military. He then takes them to an alternate entry he discovered years ago.