Average Rating: 5.9/10
Reviews Counted: 67
Fresh: 44 | Rotten: 23
Though it doesn't cover new ground, Dead Snow is an entertaining mix of camp, scares, and blood and guts.
Average Rating: 5.6/10
Critic Reviews: 19
Fresh: 11 | Rotten: 8
Though it doesn't cover new ground, Dead Snow is an entertaining mix of camp, scares, and blood and guts.
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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
Unrated, 1 hr. 31 min.
Action & Adventure, Horror, Art House & International, Comedy
Jun 19, 2009 Wide
Feb 23, 2010
IFC
All Critics (67) | Top Critics (19) | Fresh (45) | Rotten (23) | DVD (4)
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.
Nazi fn zombies what else do you need!! This was something else. A blend of comedy and horror. Was just a a very strange but fun in an odd way film
March 20, 2010Super Reviewer
My friend was right to talk me out of seeing this in theatres.
September 20, 2009Super Reviewer
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