Irishchatter I have never seen a stupid horror film that would involve Nazi zombies and a lack of humour. I think this is such a rip off from well known horror films like 'The Evil Dead', 'Nightmare on Elm Street', 'Friday the 13th' and frigging 'Shaun of the Dead'. Seriously, this is like a really lazy way to get people liking this movie and trying to get into the box office.I'm more shocked that the sequel has more nominations then this first one because it is just so poorly scripted, poorly casted and poorly everything. I would avoid the sequel at all costs, I just wouldn't go there after watching 20 minutes of this! I'm keeping away from this, such rubbish!

maxastree Director Tommy Wirkola wears his influences on his sleeve, using derivative horror tropes and familiar source material in this snowbound Nazi zombie action film.Wirkola's failed "Hansel and Gretel: Witchhunters" movie was referred to as "the best Evil Dead sequel we never got" by Felix Vasquez Jr at Cinema Crazed.com, and that pretty much sums up this better, but inessential horror comedy project. Story features a group of puerile, foul mouthed "teens", (actually late twentysomethings, and further) hanging out in the snow in a holiday hut. Their combination of mall-friendly, potty mouthed humor, and smug peer-bonded contempt is reminiscent of practically every movie in the 80s "Friday the 13th" genre, or actually reminiscent of the worst aspects of public school life for fourteen year olds that are too mature, sensitive or intelligent to find tasteless sex and poop jokes to be a sign of great leadership and charisma.Anyway, these freaks get drunk out in the snow, and then there's sex and various "hey, where did Danny go?" scare gags until, horribly, it turns out that they're being hunted by zombie Nazis, preserved under the snow for decades. The Nazis are violent, mostly speechless and like ripping heads, arms and stomachs to pieces. The actual zombie make-up is very second rate, but a lot of the gore effects are "top notch" if you like this kind of thing. Moreover, low budget productions for this generation look a lot better than their poor cousins from decades ago due to digital compositing and color grading tricks that make the film look great, although somewhat limited due to unusually long periods where the director of photography uses only medium close-up shots. If there's a 'language of cinema', camera director Matthew Weston apparently has never heard of it, because large chunks of the first and second part of the story are framed like camera-phone footage.That aside, the film also suffers from a total lack of originality, from the 80s slasher setup in the "plot" to the fact that numerous gags and scare scenes are lifted directly from Sam Raimis 'Evil Dead 2' and Peter Jacksons 'Braindead'. To its advantage, the movie DOES feature a hell of a lot of snow, and the idea of zombies emerging from beneath snow, and numerous scenes where characters are submerged or fighting in snow ads a bit of a "novel twist", also the sequel was rated as considerably better than this film by most major critics, which is pretty cool, I guess.Subtitled in Norwegian.

meddlecore Dead Snow is a patently ridiculous Nazi Zombie splatterfest that will require suspension of disbelief to fully appreciate. But if what you are looking for is mindlessly, gory entertainment- in which no one escapes unscathed- then you'll be happy with this fun feature from our good friends in Norway.A group of medical students are heading to a cabin in the mountains, where they plan to hook up with another friend who is skiing cross country to meet them there.Shortly after arriving they find a box of gold which they discuss selling...only to be interrupted by a random wanderer, who approaches them with a dire warning to watch out for an angry regiment of extremely territorial Nazi Zombis- who have remained in the area since the war. He dies soon after.Ignoring this dark omen, the group gets drunk and festive. At one point, Erland- the chubby lovable member of the gang- heads off to the outhouse to take a sh*t. Kris follows him out and surprises him with a quick f*ck him on the john...while he's shitting...and she sucks on his finger just after he wipes. She's a wild one...clearly...Either way, Erland returns...but Kris does not. So the gang decides it's best to go look for both her and Sara- who never makes it. Sara's boyfriend heads off on the skidoo, while the rest of them remain behind to check around the cabin.While out searching for the two girls, Sara's boyfriend finds the the wanderer dead in his tent, then falls through the snow, landing in a series of tunnels, where the Nazi Zombies seem to have been living. Meanwhile, back at the cabin, the rest of the group are trying to stave off an attack.A bloodbath ensues.While pretty mediocre overall, this film is filled with funny, creative kills...and there is a whole lot of gore. But that's all it's got going on, really. You just kind of take it in as it all goes down and then it's over....it's not very engaging. That being said, however, I think most people will get a kick out of it.5.5 out of 10.

Prichards12345 Dead Snow has a well-crafted and suspense-building opening 40 minutes, but this goes for nothing when it turns into yet another gore-filled comedy rip-off of The Evil Dead, Shaun of The Dead, etc. As each scene got more improbable than the last, and more and more entrails, amputations and one-liners are introduced I wondered if I'd make it to the end. I did, just. Shame as the set up was good. If they'd kept it nebulous and shadowy (and reasonably serious) they might have had a little classic on their hands.Yes, it is funny, but we've been here before so many times. Movie references abound in this film but so what? The film-makers prove they are familiar with horror flicks. Is that supposed to make this movie better? Of course the usual Psueds will call it "Post Modernist" or something - which really means it has no originality at all. Steal from, er sorry post modernistically allude to The Thing, Evil Dead, The Descent, etc all you want, but it will not make a good film.In fairness the movie is well-directed and the cast likable and engaging, but still not enough to make it work. So great first 40 minutes then bereft of ideas.....