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10/22/09
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
The excessive blood and guts and lack of any true scares results in an absurdly conceived and insanely executed movie.
06/22/09
It felt formulaic from start to finish.
06/22/09
What should've been a rollicking, kick-the-air horror bonanza is instead reduced to a weirdly fruitless genre romp that looks to amuse and frighten, but only achieves a baffling, slightly mean-spirited tone.
06/18/09
Dead Snow features a great premise - Nazi zombies! - and literally nothing else for horror hounds to chew on.
06/11/09
how does one ever live up to the promise of Nazi zombies?
06/11/09
Let's call this the gooiest movie of the year (so far).
06/16/09
For young, gore-hungry audiences who haven't seen "The Evil Dead" (one and two), Dead Snow could work as a stomach-churning thrill ride, but for more experienced viewers, you're much better off sticking with a master of the genre like Sam Raimi...
06/12/09
Norwegian zombie film is pretty standard, by-the-numbers fare, so generic it might as well have been shot by a soulless Hollywood studio.
06/18/09
Once you get past the relative novelty of it (they're ZOMBIES, but they're also NAZIS!!), Dead Snow is only so-so.
02/25/09
Those undead baddies, allegedly flash-frozen since World War II, are kind of unique, but they don't make up for the sense of déjŕ vu one feels watching the rest of Wirkola's bloody vacation-from-hell-athon.
07/01/09
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.
09/25/09
Maybe it’s silly to criticize a zombie movie for having that not-so-fresh feeling. Then again, you expect more from Nazi flesh-eaters who want their gold back.
06/17/09
Trust me, either this isn’t your kind of movie at all or you’ve seen everything here done better and with fewer metaphoric quotation marks hovering over it.
06/19/09
Dead Snow ultimately settles for run-of-the-mill scares... adequate for zombie fans, but nothing like the marvelous things it might have shown us.
06/29/09
If Mystery Science Theater 3000 had never existed, Dead Snow would have had to invent it.
07/16/09
Top CriticThere'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.
09/11/09
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 CriticThe superior craftsmanship helps to sustain the film until the horrific violence makes it literally unwatchable.
06/11/09
Top CriticThis 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
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