Chernobyl Diaries

Name: Chernobyl Diaries
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Released: 2012-05-24
Duration: 1 h 28 min
Rating: 5.1
Cast: Olivia Taylor Dudley, Jesse McCartney, Devin Kelley, Jonathan Sadowski, Ingrid Bolsø Berdal

Ten years ago, the Ukrainian government let tourists visit the area around Chernobyl. They said it was safe...it wasn't.

Chernobyl Diaries (2012)

Timing: 1:28 (88 min)

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Video for the film Chernobyl Diaries — Official Trailer 1

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Release date

2012-05-24

Country

United States

Production

Warner Bros. Pictures, Solana Films, Alcon Entertainment, FilmNation Entertainment, Oren Peli / Brian Witten Pictures

Genre

Horror, Thriller

Budget

$1 000 000

Box office

$38 390 020

Website

http://www.chernobyldiaries.com/

Director

Bradley Parker

Actors

Olivia Taylor Dudley, Jesse McCartney, Devin Kelley, Jonathan Sadowski, Ingrid Bolsø Berdal, Nathan Phillips, Alex Feldman, Milutin Milošević, Kristof Konrad, Pasha D. Lychnikoff
All actors and roles (10)

Scenario

Shane van Dyke, Oren Peli

Producer

Brian Witten, Oren Peli

Camera operator

Morten Søborg

Composer

Artist

Aleksandar Denić

Audition

Terri Taylor, Aleksandar Adžić, Nenad Pavlović

Editing

Stan Salfas
Whole Team (160)

Short description

A group of six tourists looking to go off the beaten path, hire an 'extreme tour guide' who, ignoring warnings, takes them into the city of Pripyat, the former home to the workers of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor, but now a deserted town since the disaster more than 25 years earlier. After a brief exploration of the abandoned city, the group members find themselves stranded, only to discover that they are not alone.

What's left behind the scenes

At the “Pripyat” checkpoint, where Yuri speaks with the soldiers, patches of the “Berkut” special unit are visible on their uniforms.
The male roles are dubbed by the same people who provide the voice acting for the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. game series.
When Yuri first tried to pass through the checkpoint, two soldiers in crimson berets (likely special forces) could be seen. Yuri started a conversation with the first one, while the second one circled the van. He had a folding stock of a Kalashnikov assault rifle, a paratrooper version, but such stocks were only present on AKMS and were removed from the armament of Ukrainian troops back in the 90s.
There is one nearly completed cooling tower and one barely started, which were intended for units 5 and 6 of the Chernobyl NPP. However, the film shows 3 or 4 fully constructed cooling towers.
The idea for the film came to Oren Pele when he stumbled upon photos on the internet of a girl traveling through Pripyat.
During the film's release, rumors circulated that filming took place in the actual locations of Pripyat and Chernobyl. In reality, the film was shot in Serbia and Hungary, as indicated by the credits. This is also visible with the Ferris wheel: in Pripyat, the Ferris wheel is located in a park and there are no residential buildings around it. Furthermore, Pripyat is heavily overgrown with trees and shrubs.
Filming took place in Serbia and Hungary.
The film was not shown to critics in advance.
While searching for Yuri, Michel, Paul, and Amanda follow a trail into an abandoned building. While they are talking in the kitchen, the trail in the dusty ground completely disappears, and then reappears in the next shot as soon as they resume their search.
The initial ideas for the film's story came to Oren Peli when he came across online photographs of a girl traveling through Pripyat.
The male voice acting in the film is done by the same people who voice the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. game series.
When Yuri first attempts to pass through the checkpoint, two soldiers in maroon berets can be seen. While Yuri speaks with the first, the second walks around the van. A folding stock of a paratrooper version of the Kalashnikov is visible in his hands; however, such stocks are only present on the AKMS, which was removed from the armament of the Ukrainian troops back in the 1990s.
There is one almost completed cooling tower and one barely started, which were intended for units 5 and 6 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. However, the film shows 3 or 4 fully built cooling towers, which is not true.
In the parking lot, where the bullet-ridden ZiU-682 trolleybus was parked (although there was no trolleybus service in Pripyat), were VAZ 21099 cars, which appeared in 1991, as well as a VAZ 2109 with a “long wing,” which could not have existed in 1986 (although they may have been left there after the 90s). The presence of Moskvich-2141 cars, which only began mass production in the second half of 1986, is also an error, while the accident itself occurred in April.