Dead Snow 2009

 We head over to Norway for our next offering with 2009s splatter horror comedy film Dead Snow.  The story is a take on a Scandinavian legend about undead creatures (zombies here) that protect their hidden ill gotten treasure.  The treasure is found by a bunch of medical students who are on a ski trip during Easter break.  Not only are they zombies but evil Nazi zombies.  The film while not getting much of a release her in the US was a hit in it's home country more than doubling the modest budget used to create the film.  The writer/director of the film Tommy Wirkola had made one English language film; Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters which was released in 2013 in the US.  Wirkola is well known in his native Norway and one of his first productions was a parody of Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill titled Kill Buljo.

 Interestingly enough is that these zombies are not your normal plague or virus type zombies but were instead created by a curse.  Also as is typical with most zombie movies getting bitten doesn't seem to turn people into zombies with this story.  The zombies here are just undead killers I almost want to call them Nazi ghosts instead of zombies.  I will say for a bunch of medical students we have your normal group of idiot teenagers here that continue coming up with dumb ideas in order to survive. 

The biggest negative I have about this one is sometimes the comedy parts seemed forced and I felt it took away from the story instead of helping it.  While most of the zombie makeup was acceptable and your typical zombie makeup I had issues with the zombie commander makeup.  His didn't seem passable.  It looked like they ran out of special appliances for the make up and just did what they could.  But the gore?  Once it gets going the blood and gore do not let up.  The film is a parody and at times an homage to zombie and stalker films.  It even mentions a few Evil Dead being one of them.  There's better zombie movies out there and more worthwhile ways to spend 90 minutes but it's worth a look even if it doesn't rank high on the re-watch list.  I give this 2 and a half Stolen Nazi Coins out of 5 and what is the biggest difference yet in our reviews the Horror Honey gives it 3.5/5.  She claims it was good and gross.  Guess she is into that sort of thing.