Dead Snow (2009)

Cast: Vegar Hoel, Stig Frode Henriksen, Charlotte Frogner, Lasse Valdal
Directed by: Tommy Wirkola

It has been a while since I've seen a horror movie. I think the last time was almost 2 months ago and that was Trick 'r Treat which was a fun but not so scary film. As for my taste in horror, I'll watch anything from spiritual to creature features to bloodsplatter. The only genre in horror I don't care for is B-movies but that depends on the plot.

The plot in Dead Snow is like in any zombie flick out there, go to an isolated place and camp out for the night and everything in the movie happens in one night. Only in Dead Snow, the zombies were German Nazis and judging from the cover I thought we got a zombie Adolf Hitler but it wasn't him but a colonel with a bruise upper lip. Back during WWII, they had a Einsatzgruppen (German death squads) stationed out in friggin Norway and tortured the locals. Soon after Germany's defeat in the war, the locals retaliated and killing most of them while those that survived including the leader Herzog were chased into the Norweigian mountains and there were assumed froze to death.

Today, we see a group of medical students taking a trip out to an isolated cabin and everything happens in one night! It tried to be serious but Dead Snow had some comical moments and one scene paid homage to Sam Raimi's Evil Dead when one guy cut off his bitten arm to save himself from it spreading and becoming one of the undeads. I thought he was going to attach that red chainsaw to his arm too but he didn't. The Molotov cocktail scene had me laughing and there were some dumb moments but if you've seen enough horror movies, you're to the point where you say "I saw this coming. Shouldn't have done that!" One of the students in this trip is a fat guy and he's the movie nerd, right? He's seen enough zombie movies too and he said "Do not get bitten! Do not get bitten!" and you felt he's going to outlast his friends but no, he decided to stay close to the windows and au revoir. The old hiker was another stupid part because he crashed the party in the middle of the night and warned them of evil in the region and he left and set up a tent some way up in the wood and didn't take his own advice very well. How did he live this long anyway if he's this stupid? But then again, Dead Snow isn't the kind of film to be taken seriously.

Dead Snow was an enjoyable zom com but take in mind that the lanuage is in Norweigian but there's an optional English dub and English subtitle.

Score: 7/10