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
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Dead Snow reinvigorates the genre with zombies, gore and humor spilling off the screen in equal measure. Full Review |
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B |
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. Full Review |
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B |
It's a good season for zombies. Full Review |
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2.5/5 |
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. Full Review |
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2/4 |
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. Full Review |
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2.5/4 |
It's almost endearing how little Wirkola disguises his thefts from the gore-fests of Raimi, Peter Jackson and George A. Romero. Full Review |
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C+ |
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. Full Review |
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disinter[s] the kind of gleefully big-and-bloody horror comedy showcased by films like The Evil Dead (1981) and Braindead (1992). Full Review |
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DEAD SNOW does everything a splatter-zombie film is supposed to do. Full Review |
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2.5/4 |
...gorehounds will undoubtedly be willing to overlook the movie's various flaws once the admittedly stellar third act rolls around. Full Review |
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Gore hounds will enjoy the comic mayhem and picturesque blood splatter on the virgin snow. Full Review |
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7/10 |
The sprightliest movie about mowing down revenants with a chainsaw that you are are ever likely to see. Full Review |
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Terrifically fun - gleeful gore. Full Review |
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3/4 |
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. Full Review |
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Features multiple beheadings and I think at least half the characters actually see their own intestines. It's not for the faint of heart, but it is often very, very clever. Full Review |
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2/4 |
This splatter film is set in Norway, but rest assured, it sticks with the formula. Full Review |
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2.5/4 |
If Mystery Science Theater 3000 had never existed, Dead Snow would have had to invent it. Full Review |
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3/5 |
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. Full Review |
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"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... Full Review |
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