Andrew Pelechaty
On the surface, "Dead Snow" looks like a typical slasher movie: a group of friends go on a holiday in Norway where they're picked off by a brutish monster.Then come the Nazi zombies."Dead Snow" is a brilliant Norwegian horror-comedy, with over-the-top gore, some laughs and plenty of fun.While there's some forced exposition from a mysterious stranger - basically, the Nazi zombies are after a box of World War II gold hidden in the cabin that the group are staying - it's forgivable, and gives us more gore time.'Dead Snow" refuses to take itself seriously, with so much gore (but so absurdly fake that it's not offputting), grotesque zombie make up and plenty of great kills.While the sequel takes the premise to even more ridiculous levels (now the Nazis are fighting the Russians, with amateur American zombie hunters joining in), the original is pure fun.
TonyMontana96
(Originally reviewed: 12/04/2017) This horror/comedy revolving around Nazi zombies is the most entertaining, fun zombie picture since Zack Snyder's remake of Dawn of the Dead. The story is basic but effective and follows careless, medical students to the snowy outskirts of Norway, while there they take refuge in a friend's cabin, which is fully equipped, packed with essentials and your typical assortment of booze, during their brief stay the seven friends are approached by a strange, unsociable man who warns them of the disappearances in the woods, after laughing in his face they soon regret their actions as ten or so minutes later one of the group goes missing, which is when they see something outside, realising it's a zombie they panic and the carnage begins and it's a riot, original ways to kill zombies with fast pacing and an appropriate setting are most welcome. The performances are nothing special, there just decent and fun, knowing full well what I was getting into, among the entertaining cast are Vegar Hoel, Stig Frode Henriksen, Charlotte Frogner, Lasse Valdal, Jeppe Beck Laursen, Evy Kasseth Rosten, Jenny Skavlen and Ane Dahl Torp.The Nazi zombie leader resembles that of Adolf Hitler, which is well suited as everyone is aware he was the leader of the Nazis, and the zombies themselves are well designed, and fitfully intriguing, they don't just eat people, they use weapons and fight and so forth, making them more interesting than your routine zombies. The picture packs a downright hilarious sense of humour too, there's an equal amount of scares and laughs, which really make this film work. one particular scene that I found brilliant was when two of the remaining students pick up a chainsaw and a sledgehammer and step outside, the camera pauses, setting up a standoff, and within seconds they run at the zombies, and the action is non-stop jaw dropping, it's very gory, but also original in its methods of killing zombies, one guy put's a machine gun onto his jet ski, and jumps high into the air whilst heading for the zombies, now that is what I call fun, it also possess a decent rock soundtrack, upbeat rhythm, some solid one liners and really good direction from Tommy Wirkola, who also wrote the pretty good screenplay, with the help of Stig Frode Henriksen who also starred, playing one of the students.This is a film that knows it's premise isn't packed with needless exchanges between fight scenes, a film that delivers badass action sequences, terrific choreography and a hilarious sense of humour, this is exactly why Dead Snow works, and I really enjoyed it, for its genre it's very good, despite a lapse in believability when one character falls off a cliff and survives because "the snow broke her fall". Overall This is a tense, funny horror/comedy that delivers exactly what it promises, Dead Snow is a film deserving of repeat viewings, for its enjoy ability, if you want a solid, entertaining as hell 21st century zombie picture, then Norwegian set Deas Snow is well worth seeing.
