Why can't all Norwegian horror movies be like Dead Snow? Well, maybe they are 'cause I haven't seen any other Norwegian horror movies. But on the basis of this fun, blood splattered affair, an entire industry could be set up in the mountains producing this stuff.
It's the usual horror thing of young people vacationing in a cabin...not in the woods, but on a snowbound mountain. The phones are out of range of civilization immediately and a bloke turns up fairly early on to provide the backstory to the approaching brutality. From then on it's Nazi Massacre central.
It takes itself more seriously than I anticipated, with the lunacy injected natrurally into procedings. The gore is inventive and plentiful (although it never goes tp the extremes of Braindead or Evil Dead II, the two films it's clearly influenced by). The movie goes out of it's way, Alien style, to keep you guessing as to who the main character will be; can it be dashing Martin, hapless Herzog or Hanna, the Eva Green clone?
Well, given that the cool Zombie Nazi's are so entertaining (and plentiful) it's none of the above. Great fun and a great final shot too.
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