Dead Snow (Død snø) (2008)
Average Rating: 6/10
Reviews Counted: 69
Fresh: 45 | Rotten: 24
Though it doesn't cover new ground, Dead Snow is an entertaining mix of camp, scares, and blood and guts.
Average Rating: 5.4/10
Critic Reviews: 22
Fresh: 11 | Rotten: 11
Though it doesn't cover new ground, Dead Snow is an entertaining mix of camp, scares, and blood and guts.
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Average Rating: 3.3/5
User Ratings: 16,525
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Movie Info
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 undead Nazi soldiers intent on devouring anyone unfortunate enough to wander into the remote mountains where they were once sent to die. It's Easter vacation, and what better way to spend the break than skiing down the isolated hills just outside of Øksfjord, Norway? After packing their cars with enough beer and ski equipment to ensure that a good time will be had
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Vegar Hoel
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Charlotte Frogner
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Jenny Skavlan
Chris -
Jeppe Beck Laursen
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Lasse Valdal
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Bjørn Sundquist
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Ana Dahl Torp
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Orjan Gamst
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All Critics (69) | Top Critics (22) | Fresh (46) | Rotten (24) | DVD (4)
It's a good season for zombies.
Top CriticEvery 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.
Audience Reviews for Dead Snow (Død snø)
Super Reviewer
The plot of Dead Snow is essentially Nazi zombies rise from the dead and instantly begin painting the blood and guts of college students over the pure white Norwegian snow. This is a horror-comedy that just kept a smile on my face all the way through, additionally made me laugh a small number of times. Some of the film was excellent but sometimes it gets a little bit repetitive, nevertheless it succeeds at being charismatic and likable. The acting for the most part is wooden as the cabin the characters take refuge in but the physical and hefty gore effects made up for the fact it doesn't cover any new ground. It might have been a terrible "Shaun of the Dead" rip off, but I seriously doubt any filmmaker will come close to the genius of Edgar Wright's instant classic any time soon. One can neither take this as a horror nor a comedy, it sort of mixes both but is somewhat great at being neither. The technical brilliance fills this ignorable void until it decides to kick itself back into place again. Although it lacks haunting atmospherics and exceptional camerawork, it has splatter and outrageous killing to fill buckets, and that is what the gorehound audience for this film will expect. I am part of it, and let me tell you from that perspective, I was very satisfied with it. At times weak, but as a whole its camply good grindhouse fun.
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Foreign Titles
- Zombis nazis (ES)
