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.
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06/29/09
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
It is...homage to the genre and, especially, Sam Raimi's Evil Dead movies.
06/25/09
The film would have benefited immensely had it anchored its high concept to history a bit more strongly.
06/25/09
Dead Snow knows exactly what it is... a horror film with Nazi zombies as stars.
06/24/09
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
A mindlessly entertaining horror film that starts off slow and dull, but, midway, it turns into a tongue-in-cheek, gory and guilty pleasure that will please avid horror fans. For maximum enjoyment, see it late at night with a large group of friends...
06/19/09
Can't resist the urge to make the mordant comedy implicit in these movies more literal than it should be.
06/19/09
Despite some dry humor, this is no-frills horror, from the hacked limbs to the gouged eyes.
06/19/09
[Director] Wirkola keeps the narrative taut, wasting not a frame; and he throws in funny moments, one involving a Nazi's icky intestine. Matt Weston's cinematography adds to the twisted charm.
06/19/09
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
Chomp-chomp, zip-zip go the Nazi zombies in Dead Snow, a self-consciously outlandish horror flick.
06/19/09
If you're in the mood for splatter, well, any film in which someone avoids a nasty fall by grabbing not a rope but a slowly unwinding intestine is certainly in the mood to deliver it.
06/19/09
Top CriticThere'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
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
The movie definitely delivers in the gore department. The movie's problem -- you knew there had to be one -- is its uncertain tone.
06/19/09
Who 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
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
Hitler of the Dead!
06/18/09
If you tamp down your expectations there is a storm of scary fun to be had in this Scandinavian splatterfest.
06/18/09
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