When holidaying in Europe a group of friends decided to embark on this extreme tour in the radioactive environment of a barron town. Dismissing the guards at the gates of Chernobyl, their tour guide gets them into the town though a secret passage. All they had for this tour was the van, their backpacks and a camera. A two hour tour extended to their fight for survival when a massive mutant bear chases them out of the abandoned construction that they were viewing. During their attempts to flee the town, one by one they start to get killed and injured from what appears to be mutants.
What starts off as a rather factual set up of the disaster, ends up as a dodgy collaboration of bad editing effects, death and monster-like chaos. Shot in a handheld manner, the 'diaries' style was able to be effectively captured for the audience not to attain a headache, however the plot had potential to kick off as interesting.. whereby they could of explored the impacts of the disaster in more of a realistic way such as for the affected to be prone to cancer, flashbacks, dramatic trauma and insanity, rather then using darkness as a shaky camera to easily shoot scenes which may have required more actors or more of a filming budget. An attempt of the horror genre was created but I think I was personally looking for a bit more of a drama element to this film, a little more story. Also whilst viewing this film, The Blair Witch Project came to mind as their are major similarities in themes and 'young adults in a foreign land' notion.
This film however does encapsulate the notion of a horror as gore, suspense, jumpy and STUPID, which is epitomised at the very conclusion of the film.
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