The group of friends had everything they needed for a successful Easter vacation, cabin, skiing, snowmobile, sled, lots of beer and a fertile mix of the sexes. Sure, none of them did not go home alive! But the Nazi-zombie battalion haunting the mountains around the aptly named Oksfjord (Axefjord) had other plans ..
Zombie Nazis. They are either excited by the idea, or you’re not, what is considered a good indicator of whether you like Snow Dead, a zombie comedy (or ZOM-com) from Norway, with zombie-Nazis in the snow looking for you to soak in blood and make You chuckle a time or two in the process.
The premise is simple: A group of medical students, for a weekend of winter fun in the middle of nowhere, when a horde of undead Nazis stalk, attack, and the wage an all-out, she was no apparent reason, except that the what zombie Nazis do. There are some, the story of stolen gold coins, but does not really matter. We are talking about zombie Nazis, the people who are not Shakespeare. Just go with.
I liked Dead snow, but not as much as I Shaun of the Dead, 2004 film, the bar for the ZOM-com genre, even though Dead Snow gave it a run for their money. It could be that the Norwegian translation was lost on me, but I would qualify Dead Snow disclose more amusing than funny. I laughed out loud a few times, but mostly I saw the film with a solid smile on my face and for a com-ZOM, sometimes that’s all you can really ask for.
The setup is simple and so are the characters, shows your run-of-the-mill group of victims, although not as stupid as Hollywood usually distinguish them. They are students of medicine, do not forget. The group is a huge movie fan, so that with a series of so-so movie references, and a man who can not be the sight of blood. And so you can probably guess, leads to some horrific hijinks by the Final Act.
That brings me to the Blood and Gore. We are, after all, talking about a movie with zombie-Nazis, and although it never fully explains how these Nazi zombies, one thing is clear: It is the kind of zombies youreally do not want to run, you must be in. away to zombie-boot camp, because they are tactical, they are fast, they are merciless, and they love to make them victims to the ground in front of the ribs from the insides. But not the medical students for a range of moron, either. When the time comes, they fearlessly use machine guns, hammers, chainsaws, and just about any other blunt object to this zombie-Nazis are.
Films like these are for Gore hounds, because it’s an easy excuse to take the nastiest, bloodiest, gory pain to another person and it is OK (and funny), because that person is already dead. And when the zombie Nazi killing starts, you will not be disappointed in the amount of Gore, on the table. Since the clay is quite easy, you’ll probably laugh about a couple of kills, but you can not fool the sound. There are a ton of blood-soaked goriness to bypass, because the film does not hold back on the amount of red sauce. Think along the lines of Evil Dead 2 or Dead Alive. If you like the mix of violence and zombie comedy, then you are in for a treatment with Dead Snow.
A part of me wants to talk about some of the not-so-stellar aspects of the film, including the lack of explanation as to why the Nazis are zombies, or why some of the group of death, be treated so nonchalantly. I could probably talk about what a disappointment was that most of the jokes seem to fall flat, or how boring the main Nazi Zombie was a baddie. But then I did not forget: We are talking about a Nazi zombie movie here! Things like that are not really important, right? What counts is the amount of bloody zombie violence and the graphic nature of the killing. Anything more than that and you’re back on way up to expectations.
So it was not, while the quintessence ZOM-com, as some of his predecessors, Dead Snow delivered the goods when it comes to blood-splattered zombie goodness. The premise of zombie Nazis is classic, and the setting of a snowy landscape was a nice variety and a few gags are not normally seen in your average zombie movie. I would like to view Badde zombie leader and a better (or simply more credible) explanation of how these zombified Nazis was in the first place, but then I want to slap me for more than a patchwork of zombie Nazis. For fans of the zombie genre, and those who primarily a kick out of the ZOM-GMO, Dead Snow will certainly entertain.
