Dead Snow reinvigorates the genre with zombies, gore and humor spilling off the screen in equal measure.
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11/12/09
Dead Snow (2009)
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Reviews Counted:61
Fresh:40
Rotten:21
Average Rating:6/10
Consensus: Though it doesn't cover new ground, Dead Snow is an entertaining mix of camp, scares, and blood and guts.
Theatrical Release:Jun 19, 2009 Limited
Synopsis: Depending on the audience, the sub-sub-genre of the Nazi zombie movie could sound like the best or worst of cinematic offerings. But DEAD SNOW received rave reviews from audiences at Sundance,... [More]
Starring: Vegar Hoel, Stig Frode Henriksen, Charlotte Frogner, Lasse Valdal
Director: Tommy Wirkola
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Reviews for Dead Snow
This splatter film is set in Norway, but rest assured, it sticks with the formula.
07/17/09
Top CriticIt's almost endearing how little Wirkola disguises his thefts from the gore-fests of Raimi, Peter Jackson and George A. Romero.
09/25/09
Top Critic"Zombie Nazis" sounds like an unbeatable combination, but it turns out to be one of those great ideas that cannot sustain itself purely on the concept alone...
06/29/09
disinter[s] the kind of gleefully big-and-bloody horror comedy showcased by films like The Evil Dead (1981) and Braindead (1992).
09/07/09
Can't resist the urge to make the mordant comedy implicit in these movies more literal than it should be.
06/19/09
There's a Grand Guignol level of excess in the latter stages of Dead Snow, wherein Wirkola simply cuts loose and plays a game of "how can I top this?" with each new scene.
06/19/09
The sprightliest movie about mowing down revenants with a chainsaw that you are are ever likely to see.
07/31/09
The film would have benefited immensely had it anchored its high concept to history a bit more strongly.
06/25/09
It is...homage to the genre and, especially, Sam Raimi's Evil Dead movies.
06/25/09
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.
09/25/09
Top CriticChomp-chomp, zip-zip go the Nazi zombies in Dead Snow, a self-consciously outlandish horror flick.
06/19/09
Top CriticDirector Wirkola obviously knows the zombie genre inside out %u2013 and isn't afraid to pull its innards out farther than they've been pulled before.
06/06/09
If Mystery Science Theater 3000 had never existed, Dead Snow would have had to invent it.
07/16/09
Top CriticThe superior craftsmanship helps to sustain the film until the horrific violence makes it literally unwatchable.
06/11/09
Top CriticWho knew that Norway had such a thriving strain of modern horror films...gruesomely funny in a Sam Raimi/George Romero vein: over the top, Grand Guignol violence.
06/19/09
Dead Snow knows exactly what it is... a horror film with Nazi zombies as stars.
06/24/09
Told in three completely different acts and styles, Dead Snow is like a primer of how the last 30 years of Hollywood horror has redefined the international scary movie landscape.
06/19/09
This Norwegian export adds precious little to the zombie-movie canon that hasn't already been thoroughly cannibalized by better directors and storytellers.
06/19/09
Those undead baddies, allegedly flash-frozen since World War II, are kind of unique, but they don't make up for the sense of déjà vu one feels watching the rest of Wirkola's bloody vacation-from-hell-athon.
07/01/09
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