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Chernobyl and The Terror docu-dramas expose horror's many faces

Stories of Chernobyl's nuclear meltdown and the doomed Franklin hunt for a North-West Passage terrify for very different reasons, says Chelsea Whyte in her latest column

By Chelsea Whyte

19 June 2019

crew on the Franklin expedition

All crew on the Franklin expedition died after getting stuck in Arctic ice

AMC

The Terror
Prod. David Kajganich
AMC

Chernobyl
Dir. Johan Renck
HBO/Sky TV

I AM not the kind of person who likes to be scared. I wouldn’t voluntarily go to a haunted house, and when I watch horror movies, I tend to scrunch up into a ball and peer through my fingers like a child. I have even been known to scream in cinemas.

But, surprisingly, I haven’t been able to tear myself away from two completely terrifying recent TV shows. The first is the aptly named …

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