Although slightly delayed, last week I watched a horror film called Chernobyl Diaries. I have never been more disappointed in a movie before in my life. I predicted the ending of the movie when I was half an hour through the movie. As usual, it was a zombie story! *Spoiler Alert* Everyone dies to zombies. That's the plot of nearly every single zombie movie. It's too predictable. Zombies are essentially unstoppable as there are more dead people than living so more zombies to kill than people to "kill" zombies. How do you kill the dead? They're already dead! That alone reveals the ending right from the start. Even though you don't see any zombies for a good part of the movie, you can assume; Mysterious deaths near Chernobyl's malfunctioned nuclear reactor that exploded leaving radiation for who knows how many years? Radiation=zombies. Plain and simple.
After watching the original Frankenstein series in STAC and seeing this catastrophe of a movie, it's saddening because even though the Frankenstein series was made in the late 1920s to the early 30s and their special effects was basically none at all, was scarier than Chernobyl Diaries and we have modern technology for special effects to make truly terrifying films but this was truly a disaster.
Ah Grasshopper, you have learned that EFFECTS DON'T HELP if it sucks to begin with.
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