It also helped me enjoy Grave Encounters waaaaay more than I should have since I watched that immediately after this.
That's funny, because I just finished watching this and I have Grave Encounters 2 queued up in my playlist that I'm just about to watch, although I hear it's much worse than the first one.
Chernobyl Diaries is riddled with plot holes, but of course it is, because the characters' motives stem from a completely illogical premise. Once they decided to just sit in the van instead of making the rational decision to walk back to the perimeter immediately, the film falls apart. They even gloss over the fact that apparently the car wires appear to have been chewed on by an animal. An animal that somehow got into the van, opened the engine hatch, chewed on some very specific wires, and then kindly replaced the hatch. And sabotage is an afterthought. Regardless, at this point in the film they have no reason to suspect rabid dogs, and they have established no radio communication, so the obvious choice would be to just hike it back, expecting to eventually come across guards and probably get in trouble for trespassing, but at least at some point you're going to get a ride out of there. So everything beyond that point in the film is just stupid.
I actually just wanted to check out the film for the location shots, because I'd seen all those eerie photographs of Pripyat on blogs via the StumbleUpon browser extension. Sadly, this isn't even close to the worst horror film I've ever seen. I've seen some very low budget shockers, and as bad as this is, it's not even close to the really bad ones.
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