Chernobyl Diaries marks the directorial debut of visual effects maven Brad Parker. The film eschews its found-footage conceit early yet still maintains that sub-genre’s documentary/cinema verite aesthetic. Chernobyl Diaries is a less-is-more type flick, with a majority of the “creatures” completely enshrouded in darkness and most of the character deaths happening just off frame. In the following interview, director Brad Parker discusses settling on a “looser” camera, the surprising films he emulated for Chernobyl’s ‘look’ (hint: think Woody Allen) and the budgetary & creative principles behind his less-is-more aesthetic. I also try and find out about his Bad Robot project, but he’s been trained well. For the full interview, hit the jump.
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God, I love Tommy Cook.
So professional and insightful.
this movie sucked and deserved the D+ Cinemascore.
there were enough cliches for 5 movies.
CLOVERFIELD 2?
This guy is the Tarantino of the bad horror movies.
I think the movie actually was pretty good. Good story, and sick ending
i think it was at least 4 of 5 . Good job Mr Parker, i will for sure look for more movies of you
What story are you talking about?
I have to agree with Jane Harkiss, bloody awful movie. Felt like the work of a 16 years old wannabe filmmaker. No real story and please everything that happens there is so obvious, its like watching a movie for a 4th time…you know what happens and what happens after that.
Instead of makeing something original he chose to raise awareness of something that happend almost 30 years ago…and by the way, the real important fact, that all of this happend cause of a failure at a safetytest is just mentioned in one phrase.
raiseing awareness of incompetence by makeing a shitty movie is a funny way to make a statement.
This isn’t film-making, it is sick making, exploitative sensationalist crap. The only use for it, is as a sobering reminder of the depths that those people in the film ‘industry’ who lack all morals & integrity, with go in order to make a ‘few bucks’. Shame on ‘Brad’ Bloody Parker.
Chernobyl diaries was awful…just watched it on On Demand & it was a waste of $5…nothin even hapoened til the last 20 min of the movie & it only showed half second glimpses of the radiation affected ppl & the only scene with them that lasted more than a second had the camera all over the place so it was all a blur!!! Im so sick of these “horror” movies bein advertised to look good & scary but are really jus plain boring & no real horror to speak of but by then the audience has already spent their money to watch it….I knew I shlda went with the original version of The Thing instead…The new version of that movie was the last good scary movie I saw & I heard the original was just as good…the ppl producing these crap horror films need to take a cue from the good ones like The Thing, Dawn of the Dead, 28days/weeks Later c how to make real horror…ppl watch horror to get scared not to c characters runnin around screaming about some creature that never is revealed…
SHITTY MOVIE….WASTE OF AN HOUR & A HALF OF MY LIFE & THE $5 I SPENT TO WATCH IT ON DEMAND….IM SO SICK IF BEING DISAPPOINTED BY THESE SHITTY DO CALLED HORROR MOVIES THAT DONT ACTUALLY CONTAIN ANY HORROR…THESE PRODUCERS MAKE MONEY BY PUTTIN OUT BULLSHIT & RIPPIN PPL OFF….
I wish I cld contact the director personally & demand a refund & tell him what a sorry movie that was