Gory, disturbing and brilliant...get ready for the horror comedy of the year as a car-load of backpackers come face-to-face with undead Nazis!
Three babes, a handsome guy, a funny fat dude and two geeks go holidaying in a wooden cabin in an isolated outback region of Norway. They're having a grand old time having snowball fights, sliding around on an inflatable rubber tube and laughing at the funny fat dude's wise cracks and jokes. Then, as I am sure is the experience of many people, they find a load of Nazi gold under the floorboards...perhaps hidden by some bright soul who's never heard of a safe and just tucked it away for a rainy day in case they ever needed a few hundred grand worth of gold for a new exhaust for the car, or some new lenses for their specs or something of the like! After a midnight visit and a tall yarn from a crazy old dude (who for some reason is taking a stroll in the pitch black in the middle of nowhere) the cabin is besieged by zombies. Maybe this motley crew could have handled ordinary zombies but these ones are Nazi zombies who have the added bonus of military training (and they lost the war so they're not in the best of moods). What ensues is a cavalcade of calamities as the group try to stay alive in the most comic ways the writers could imagine. They try ringing the police but strangely the law don't seem convinced by their tale of woe. Molotov cocktails seem like a neat idea until they set the cabin on fire. Oh well there's always that chainsaw conveniently stored in the shed next door.
My favourite scene saw the fat dude paying a visit to the outside karzy to 'drop the kids off at the pool'. He's halfway through his business when one of the babes unexplainably bursts in and has relations with him right there on the toilet. Classic.
A close second sees one of the geeks get his arm bitten by a very angry zombie. He thinks he's going to be transformed into the living dead and so naturally he needs to chainsaw his own arm off to counteract this impending misfortune. By the look on his face it smarted a little.
Dead Snow is an incredibly enjoyable comedy horror. It's not very scary (unless your five years old...and then you shouldn't be watching it anyway) but it is funny. Recommended for military minded zombie fans with a sense of humour, who like their sex scenes on the toilet. An adequate description of a great many people I'm sure...but not positive.
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Darkly comic zombie horror from Norway. Eight medical students decide to spend their Easter holiday on ski vacation. While partying at a small cabin in the snowy wilderness, they receive a visit from a hiker (Bjorn Sundquist) who tells them of the area's disturbing history. During the German occupation of WWII, the local populace were brutally terrorised by a Nazi platoon led by Colonel Herzog (Ørjan Gamst). After suffering abuse, torture and the theft of all their gold, the citizens of the area managed to stage an uprising and chased Herzog and his men into the mountains where it is assumed they froze to death. Later, when the students are out on the snow, they find a box of gold and plan to make off with it. Not surprisingly, the undead Nazis rise from their icy graves to exact their gory revenge...
DEAD SNOW received rave reviews from audiences at Sundance, promising that this Norwegian horror comedy will be a favourite for genre fans. In the film, a group of friends think they in for a trip filled with skiing, drinking, and hooking up, but a defrosting band of Nazi zombies have something else in store for the vacationers.
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