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Chernobyl Diaries

2012

Six tourists hire an extreme-tour guide to sneak into Pripyat, the abandoned town beside the Chernobyl reactor, and find they are not as alone in the irradiated ruins as they thought. A found-footage horror.

Why it’s here

A horror film centered on Pripyat and the legacy of the Chernobyl exclusion zone.

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