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It's a good season for zombies.
Every new zombie movie, however, has to be a little bit different than the one that came before it. Otherwise, it wouldn't be horrifying or much fun.
It's almost endearing how little Wirkola disguises his thefts from the gore-fests of Raimi, Peter Jackson and George A. Romero.
Gore hounds will enjoy the comic mayhem and picturesque blood splatter on the virgin snow.
The Norwegian Nazi-zombie movie Dead Snow is quite the jolly mountain holiday, pitting a group of medical students against a battalion of undead, unpleasant and unstoppable German soldiers hellbent on ruining a perfectly good Easter vacation.
This splatter film is set in Norway, but rest assured, it sticks with the formula.
... this is terrific, a dryly hilarious horror comedy with a macabre sense of splatter humor a la Evil Dead 2... but minus the self-conscious wisecracking of the genre.
The thread-bare plot mostly serves as a means to get these people in an isolated area so they may be attacked by the undead. While the characters are likable, they are flat--you're given just enough information to care about them.
You gotta love a movie about Nazi zombies. Well, you don't have to love it, but this one is refreshingly gross. Paul Chambers, CNN.
Nazi zombies on ice, an inconvenient poop facilities safehouse, high IQ wilderness party animals, and defrosted Aryan undead snacking on sloppy seconds of whatever may be left of their comrades. Friday The 13th with frostbite.
Dead Snow reinvigorates the genre with zombies, gore and humor spilling off the screen in equal measure.
The pre-credits opening - a hilariously self-aware, subversive chase scene scored to "In the Hall of the Mountain King" - stands as an easy comedic high point.
We get so used to foreign filmmakers giving us original twists on genres like horror it's disappointing to be reminded that they can be banal and derivative too.
There's a smidgen of kicky fun in the thing, but the craft varies wildly between clever and sloppy, the acting is rudimentary, and the Nazi element is truly arbitrary.
disinter[s] the kind of gleefully big-and-bloody horror comedy showcased by films like The Evil Dead (1981) and Braindead (1992).
DEAD SNOW does everything a splatter-zombie film is supposed to do.
...gorehounds will undoubtedly be willing to overlook the movie's various flaws once the admittedly stellar third act rolls around.
The sprightliest movie about mowing down revenants with a chainsaw that you are are ever likely to see.
Terrifically fun - gleeful gore.
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