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07/31/09
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
Once the action broadens to the open snow and the victims start to fight back, the Nazi-zombie premise finally pays off.
06/18/09
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
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
Gore hounds will enjoy the comic mayhem and picturesque blood splatter on the virgin snow.
08/20/09
If Mystery Science Theater 3000 had never existed, Dead Snow would have had to invent it.
07/16/09
Top CriticThe 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.
07/17/09
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
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
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
It's a good season for zombies.
10/09/09
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
Cheery, silly, splattery, and respectful of its elders, this bloody/cheesy subtitled Scandinavian lark is written and directed by Tommy Wirkola, who has a nice touch with severed limbs.
06/17/09
Top CriticAlthough not exactly all that scary, Dead Snow earns big points for enthusiasm, creativity, and a powerful devotion to all things ultra-splattery.
03/03/09
Director 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
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10/22/09
how does one ever live up to the promise of Nazi zombies?
06/11/09
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
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