Dead Snow (2009)

I love this movie so much

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

One of the best zombie comedies of recent years and what I like is not only the implementation of evil Nazi-Zombie-Commandos but the good shot of blood and guts. It is a comedy, yes, but it has enough splatter so even the connoisseur of all horrors and bloodbath in us is not only satisfied but pleased.Død snø directed by Tommy Wirkola (Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters) belongs into every collection of a serious zombie/walker related stuff addict. Død snø 2 is also a fine one with more production value, but if I would have only the choice to choose one of both movies, I would prefer the first movie.

Dead Snow(2009) Starring: Charlotte Frogner, Stig Frode Henriksen, Vegar Hoel, Jeppe Beck Laursen, Evy Kasseth Røsten, Lasse Valdal, Jenny Skavlan, Bjørn Sundquist, Ane Dahl Torp, and Ørjan Gamst Directed By:Tommy Wirkola Review EINS, ZWEI, DIE! Hello Kiddies your Pal The Crypt-Critic logging in another piece of film I saw yesterday night. This is exactly the kind of stupid, bad but yet fun horror film I was looking for. Eight medical students on a ski trip to Norway discover that Hitler's horrors live on when they come face to face with a battalion of zombie Nazi soldiers intent on devouring anyone unfortunate enough to wander into the remote mountains where they were once sent to die. Like I said this is the kind of stupid fun I was looking for, I do feel that it doesn't become as fun as it is until the hour and fifteen minute mark. The last 15-to thirty minutes are what saved it from being just awful and boring but the actors do a fine job and look like they're having fun. The direction is pretty good and it just becomes very fun to sit through. I'm giving Dead Snow a three out of five.

~~~Non-Spoiler part~~~ This is a very uneven film. In the beginning it uses every cliché of the cabin in the woods, group of young people in isolation, zombie flick, no funny twists/takes on zombie, in fact the Nazi zombies could be just zombies and practically nothing would change. I thought they could have done something more fun and interesting with the zombies being Nazi, but they are just zombies, OK, the outfit looks cool, but that's it. I was bored out of my mind at the hour mark, and almost gave up on the movie, but then the fun really picked up, the final battle is epic, it's almost like they started conceiving the film with that last battle, and then they worked out a very generic beginning. Extremely gory with silly brutal violence, that last fight really worked, at least for me. The Nazi zombies motivation for the killing spree doesn't really make sense given their actions, but I'll give my thoughts on that in the Spoilers part. The film is so uneven that my rating should be done in two parts. First hour: 3 1/2 stars Ending: 8 stars~~~ SPOILERS !!!! ~~~~ The plot, Nazis aside, is quite unoriginal, group of young guys go to an isolated cabin, attacks ensue. Except the initial tone doesn't really work, it plays almost as suspense, but we already know who is attacking them, it's shown in the first scene when one of the ladies of the group, who was going to the cabin by herself gets killed by a Nazi zombie. So what's the suspense all about? Then a guy shows up all mysterious to the cabin, his only role is to explain how the Nazis ended up in the region, and how some evil is going on in the region, in a suspenseful way, which again doesn't work at all, since we already know that there are Nazis there. But worst, he gets killed immediately after that in his tent, so no character, just a guy that shows up in the film, and explains to us what is happening in the film. Bad writing. All the characters are very generic, I didn't get invested in any of them, so other than thinking the ways some of them were killed was really cool, I didn't feel anything for them. Then the Nazi zombies motivation for killing the group revealed at the end: they just wanted the gold they found, to the point of letting the last guy go when he gives them the gold, doesn't make sense at all, the first lady that was killed did not find the gold yet, so why was she killed by a Nazi zombie? Anyway, the last battle between the two last guys and the Nazi zombies was fantastic, it made up a lot. If you like gore, that last part alone makes the film worth watching.

I don't know... Maybe I was expecting a lot more; I'm not sure. But, really with all the TRULY entertaining Zombie movies out there, not to mention some of the GREAT Nazi Zombie movies, eh... this one just left me kinda cold. And, it WASN'T just the snow...I mean, 'OUTPOST' (2007) and 'THE BUNKER' (2001), $h|t, even 1986's 'THE SUPERNATURALS' starring Lieutenant Uhura, were WAY, WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY the hell better in just about every way that counts; at least to me. Of course I understand that those were meant to be completely serious and this one isn't. Still... It's just that there isn't anything for me personally to 'Grab on' to in this film in order for me to say that I really liked it. Frankly (and I hope you don't mind my calling you that...) I just didn't see what the big deal was. There was a LOT of standing around and breathing heavy; that got kinda old. I don't know; I just think that SOMEHOW it could have honestly been a LOT more clever, genuinely funny, creepier, something... It was just kind of... Nothing...There WERE some individual parts that were okay I guess. I liked the cool, kind of laid-back guy who was almost always smiling; some of the parts with him were all right. some of the individual stunts and effects I GUESS were okay. It just all seemed to me anyway to be kind of lazy, by the numbers, nothing really stood out. Not the mood, not the humour, not the Horror, nothing...I'm not saying that it was TOTALLY lousy or anything (thus the tepid '5' that I gave it - and, quite honestly, I am not that enthusiastic about giving it that much) But, these days with like a BILLION Zombie movies and about 1/2 BILLION Zombie / Comedies, I just think that there should be SOMETHING that stands out at least a LITTLE as far as the mood, the effects, the Suspense, the acting, especially the writing. Again, SOMETHING...I haven't seen the more recent film, 'IRON SKY' about finding Nazis on the moon (don't know if they are Zombies though...) But, I BET I'll like that one better.Like I said in my title summary... Even 'SHOCK WAVES', as dated and Cheeeeeezy as it is, surprisingly is a lot more moody and effective, and MUCH easier to immerse yourself into than this so-so offering. (Sigh... and I also have 'DEAD SNOW 2' on Blu-ray sitting here waiting for me to watch it. Oh boy... I can hardly wait...)