In today’s video, we will explore a horror,
mystery, and thriller film called Chernobyl Diaries.
Before we start the video, I would like to give you a
spoiler warning because we will discuss the film’s plot in detail, so watch out.
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The film starts with a montage of a group of young American adults, Chris, his girlfriend Natalie,
and their mutual friend Amanda who are all traveling across Europe. It turns
out that it is a video that they are watching on their tablet while sitting in their hotel.
They are in Kyiv, Ukraine, to visit Chris’ brother, Paul, before heading on to Moscow.
“Best place ever ain’t it, right Chris?” Paul remarks. Then Paul helps move everyone’s suitcase.
Sometime later, Chris and Paul are having a conversation in the kitchen.
Paul informs Chris that he loves Kyiv and doesn’t want to leave.
Paul shows an interest in Amanda, but Chris tells him that she recently had a breakup.
Paul goes on to state: “I could be her fling,” after which they both laugh it off.
Then Paul asks about Natalie. Chris reveals that he will propose to her in Moscow.
Paul asks if she has any idea, to which Chris says, “I hope not.”
After a wild night in the town, they are all seen leaving a bar. They look very drunk. Paul
takes the chance to strike up a conversation with Amanda. He asks her whether she enjoyed it and she
says yes. He says: “wait until you get to Moscow.” Paul then talks to Chris as they both discuss how
much they missed each other. He then asks Paul if he has spoken to Dad, with the answer being no.
They bump into a few thugs on their way, however,
they are able to handle the situation without violence and walk back.
The next morning, they are sitting in a restaurant for breakfast.
Chris apologises for Paul’s behaviour and Amanda says it is okay as she can handle him.
Paul walks in and sits with them. He asks them if they have heard of Chernobyl. He
suggests that they go on an "extreme tour" and "off the beaten path" of the abandoned
town of Pripyat which sits in the shadow of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, the site
of the infamous nuclear disaster. He says that his friend Uri will take them there in his van.
Amanda shows her concern about the radiation to which Paul says it will be safe because
they’ll be there only for a few hours. Amanda agrees but Chris and Natalie seem skeptical.
However, Paul eventually convinces them all.
Paul introduces everyone to Uri. He reveals that
he has been taking tourists on this “special tour” for quite some time.
While they are talking, a backpacking couple, a Norwegian named Zoe, and her Australian boyfriend
Michael enter the shop. Uri then says that they are ready to go and proceed to the van.
Uri says: “Pripyat is two hours from here and Chernobyl is not far from there.”
Uri briefly explains that on April 26, 1986, Reactor #4 exploded after a massive meltdown.
They soon reach Pripyat and Uri says “we’re now entering the exclusion zone.”
They stop at a checkpoint and Uri exits the vehicle to talk
with the guards. A member of security walks around the van, inspecting it.
The six-person group is initially denied access to Pripyat by the Ukrainian military
because of the lingering radiation emitting from the closed down plant,
but Uri takes them through an unmanned checkpoint.
Everyone shows their concern when Uri takes them through the strange path,
but Paul seems excited. Uri gets off at the checkpoint and removes the barricades.
“Today we have Pripyat to ourselves,” he said.
On the way, they stop at a lake. Amanda begins to take some photographs
and Uri drives forward. He warns them that the road is bumpy.
Chris jokingly says: “when are you going to put seatbelts in this thing?”.
They stop at a river and Uri wants to show them something.
Everyone gets off. Uri takes a piece of Beef Jerky and puts it in the river. He starts acting as
though something has grabbed his hand. Everyone gets scared at first before laughing it off.
Uri invites them to take a look at something. They discover a large,
mutated, dead fish at the side of the river. Michael touches it which scares the group.
As the group return to the van, a number of similar fish are seen below the murky water
attacking the beef jerky Uri threw earlier on.
They spend a few hours exploring the abandoned city, which was home to the
Chernobyl workers and their families before they were forced to evacuate. “50 thousand people,
families, just left”, Uri explains.
Uri stops at an abandoned park. Amanda begins to take photographs
of the ferris wheel and the surrounding locations.
Uri takes them into a building. It is very dark and the place is a mess. The group explores
further. Uri takes them inside an apartment building. There is a creature lying dead on
its entrance. They start going upstairs. He shows them an abandoned apartment.
He then shows them the Chernobyl Reactor # 4 from the terrace. He gives them some space for
taking pictures and goes to the other room. He witnesses a pile of ash there and pushes
it away using his foot. Uri advises they should return to the van because “it’ll be dark soon.”
Uri suddenly hears a noise. When he slowly goes to investigate, a bear comes out from an adjacent
room and runs away. Feeling frightened, the group rushes out of the building.
The group jokes about it on their way outside. Micheal says: “anybody got a photo of it?”
Zoe asks whether the animals stay in the woods or not. Uri comments on the incident,
telling the group he has been coming to Chernobyl for five years to give private tours and has
always seen a dog or wolf but never a bear. Uri then asks the group to say bye to Pripyat.
As the group prepares to leave, the van refuses to start. Paul asks if there is gas. Uri says yes,
but finds that the wires in his van have been chewed. He tries to radio for help to no avail.
As night falls, Uri continues to radio in for help but there is no response. Paul starts blaming Uri
who denies it is his fault. The group begins arguing. Amanda says that someone has to know
that they’re out there. Uri suggests that they spend the night in the van and go in the morning.
Micheal disagrees and states they can walk their way to the checkpoint.
Uri refuses, saying it is not safe.
Noises are heard outside and Uri goes out with a flashlight and a gun.
After a while, Chris goes out of the van to accompany him.
Paul tries to go with him, but he shuts him off. They all look through the van’s window.
Shots are heard and Paul runs out to investigate, only to return with Chris whose leg has been
severely mauled. Chris says he doesn’t know what happened because there were a lot of them.
Suddenly, the van is attacked by dogs.
The group succeeds in making them go away, but the car’s battery dies.
The group starts bandaging Chris’ legs. The group stays in the van the whole night.
The next morning, Paul, Michael, and Amanda go out looking for Uri who, according to Chris,
was taken by “them," while Paul and Zoe stay behind in the van to look after Chris.
They leave the van and discuss what could’ve happened.
They enter through a fence and when Paul tries to communicate with Uri, they hear the sound nearby.
They quickly find Uri’s walkie-talkie laying nearby. The group goes inside.
They follow a trail of blood to find Uri's mutilated body in an underground complex.
They take his radiation Geiger counter. The door behind them
slowly opens and a creature enters. They take the opportunity and hide.
Amanda crawls stealthily and grabs Uri’s gun and escapes at the last minute. They
regroup and start moving outside. Micheal breaks the glass door and they escape.
They return to the van and tell them that they have to get out of here. They reveal that Uri
is dead. They plan to hike to the nearest checkpoint,
but Chris cannot move his leg. Paul suggests carrying him, but Chris says it is impossible.
He says that they should go get some help. Chris and Natalie stay behind in the van
and Paul gives them a gun and a communication device. They go on their way to find help.
The group comes across a few dogs on the main route.
They say that they need to “find another route” and go into the woods. As they
walk there, the Geiger counter starts beeping and Paul says the radiation is getting worse.
They come across a group of modern abandoned vehicles in a parking lot and find a bus with
bullet holes from the inside. They find a way to enter the bus. On the bus, they find broken
guns and a bloody guard uniform. The blood in the uniform prompts them to exit the vehicle.
Micheal calls them and reveals that he has found replacement wires for the van.
After informing Natalie, they head back towards their vehicle.
They see a bunch of mutant dogs approaching them and start running away. They have
to cross a broken and weak bridge on their way back. The bridge eventually breaks down and Zoe
falls in the water.
Micheal manages to save her by getting in the water but suddenly starts screaming. Amanda
and Zoe help him out of the water. His leg is bitten, but he manages to get up and run away.
They eventually reach the van by nightfall and find it ripped apart and flipped over.
Amanda finds Natalie's camera in which a video reveals she and Chris were taken by
the mutants. Paul starts yelling and losing his temper. Micheal tells him
to stay quiet or else they will get in trouble.
They go in search of the two and enter the abandoned building. They start searching
for Chris and Natalie there. Out of nowhere, a mutant attacks them and they run
back. During their escape, they find a traumatised Natalie and rescue her. Paul repeatedly asks her
about Chris. She says “they” got him. When the group is out in the open, they
begin to work out that another checkpoint is nearby through a map Michael
obtained during their previous escape. Micheal suggests that they escape right now,
but Paul says he will not leave without his brother and goes back in.
However, Amanda stops him and tells him that they need more help to find Chris.
Paul agrees to go with them, and while they are
running, the Geiger meter starts beeping again as the radiation gets worse.
They suddenly reach a dead end. They realise that they took a wrong turn.
The group is distracted by a little girl in the distance. As they try to communicate with her,
Natalie is once again taken by the mutants while she screams.
Paul, Michael, Amanda, and Zoe attempt to find her by following her voice. They bump
into the corpse of a dead guard. While looking for Natalie, they are swarmed by a horde of mutants.
They run to a fallout shelter, but the door gets stuck and Michael is captured by the
mutants. Zoe gets infuriated at Paul and pushes her against the door but they both calm her down.
The three of them continue their search. They reach a sort of operation theatre and Zoe
collapses to the floor but Amanda and Paul pick her up and they keep moving forward.
They start walking down the steps and hear the groans of mutants. They reach an empty room,
and Paul finds Chris' engagement ring for Natalie, but there is no sign of Chris.
They are again attacked by mutants, and as they begin to climb a ladder to the way out, a
congregation of mutants pull Zoe back down, forcing Amanda and Paul to leave her behind.
Paul and Amanda continue through the fallout shelter which comes out in the Chernobyl
power plant itself. Amanda assures Paul, who has started crying, that they can “still find them.”
As they navigate around the #4 reactor, the Geiger meter starts beeping louder and Paul stops:
His eyes are blurry. Amanda also says that her skin is burning,
but they continue forward. They find Natalie’s dead body. Amanda starts crying and Paul says
they can’t stay here for long as the mutants are still looking for them.
They continue looking for an escape, but they’re cornered
by a few mutants. They attack them, but Paul and Amanda manage to fight them off.
They successfully escape, only to also become poisoned with radiation
as their skin begins to blister. They exit the reactor and are confronted
by Ukrainian military personnel. Blinded from radiation poisoning,
Paul keeps moving forward despite their warnings and is shot dead when he approaches the soldiers.
Amanda is taken away, as the rest of the Ukrainian soldiers begin to sweep the area,
shooting and killing various mutants.
Amanda passes out and awakens on a gurney in an unknown location where several Russian and
Ukrainian doctors, clad in protective hazmat suits, inform her that she is in a hospital.
The doctors talk amongst themselves and reveal that the "creatures' ' were escaped patients
from a nearby asylum, who were placed around Chernobyl for the past 10 years by the Russian,
Ukrainian, and Belarusian authorities to examine radiation effects on them.
The doctors note that after conducting the sweep,
all of the mutants have been killed or re-captured and the other Americans are dead.
They decide Amanda, having seen the escapees, must not be allowed to leave.
They throw her into a dark isolated room. Amanda is immediately alerted as she
begins to hear noises. She calls out and a group of mutants attack her.
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