Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

One of my all time favorites.

A story that's too fascinating to pass by...

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

(Originally reviewed: 12/04/2017) This horror/comedy revolving around Nazi zombies is the most entertaining, fun zombie picture since Zack Snyder's remake of Dawn of the Dead. The story is basic but effective and follows careless, medical students to the snowy outskirts of Norway, while there they take refuge in a friend's cabin, which is fully equipped, packed with essentials and your typical assortment of booze, during their brief stay the seven friends are approached by a strange, unsociable man who warns them of the disappearances in the woods, after laughing in his face they soon regret their actions as ten or so minutes later one of the group goes missing, which is when they see something outside, realising it's a zombie they panic and the carnage begins and it's a riot, original ways to kill zombies with fast pacing and an appropriate setting are most welcome. The performances are nothing special, there just decent and fun, knowing full well what I was getting into, among the entertaining cast are Vegar Hoel, Stig Frode Henriksen, Charlotte Frogner, Lasse Valdal, Jeppe Beck Laursen, Evy Kasseth Rosten, Jenny Skavlen and Ane Dahl Torp.The Nazi zombie leader resembles that of Adolf Hitler, which is well suited as everyone is aware he was the leader of the Nazis, and the zombies themselves are well designed, and fitfully intriguing, they don't just eat people, they use weapons and fight and so forth, making them more interesting than your routine zombies. The picture packs a downright hilarious sense of humour too, there's an equal amount of scares and laughs, which really make this film work. one particular scene that I found brilliant was when two of the remaining students pick up a chainsaw and a sledgehammer and step outside, the camera pauses, setting up a standoff, and within seconds they run at the zombies, and the action is non-stop jaw dropping, it's very gory, but also original in its methods of killing zombies, one guy put's a machine gun onto his jet ski, and jumps high into the air whilst heading for the zombies, now that is what I call fun, it also possess a decent rock soundtrack, upbeat rhythm, some solid one liners and really good direction from Tommy Wirkola, who also wrote the pretty good screenplay, with the help of Stig Frode Henriksen who also starred, playing one of the students.This is a film that knows it's premise isn't packed with needless exchanges between fight scenes, a film that delivers badass action sequences, terrific choreography and a hilarious sense of humour, this is exactly why Dead Snow works, and I really enjoyed it, for its genre it's very good, despite a lapse in believability when one character falls off a cliff and survives because "the snow broke her fall". Overall This is a tense, funny horror/comedy that delivers exactly what it promises, Dead Snow is a film deserving of repeat viewings, for its enjoy ability, if you want a solid, entertaining as hell 21st century zombie picture, then Norwegian set Deas Snow is well worth seeing.

Sara is chased and killed by mysterious figures in the snowy Norwegian wilderness. Seven medical school friends go to Sara's isolated cabin expecting to join her. They are surprised by a creepy old man who tells them about a Nazi force that occupied the area during WWII. The Nazis led by Colonel Herzog were ruthless against the locals and disappeared when the Soviets arrived. The old man leaves and is then killed by a Nazi zombie.This has some good homage to Evil Dead including the chainsaw and self amputation. There is loads of good blood splatter. The snowy isolation and the Nazi zombies are good. However I do have a couple of problem. First, the cell phone needs to be useless. Instead, one character actually calls 911. The weird thing is that the guy calls after a whole night of zombie attacks. Apparently nobody remembers to call the cops during the attack. They have to wait until the next day.The bigger problem is that the movie needs to take place all at night. Zombie action during the night is more intense than out in daylight. There is a great intensity trapped in the cabin. There is no good reason for the zombies to relent in the attack. They're still around during the day. Also that girl has the reddest jacket possible. The movie needs to show that zombies see black and white because that red jacket sticks out in snowy white landscape. Overall, this is perfectly good bloody fun with lots of homage and some good moments of horror.

~~~Non-Spoiler part~~~ This is a very uneven film. In the beginning it uses every cliché of the cabin in the woods, group of young people in isolation, zombie flick, no funny twists/takes on zombie, in fact the Nazi zombies could be just zombies and practically nothing would change. I thought they could have done something more fun and interesting with the zombies being Nazi, but they are just zombies, OK, the outfit looks cool, but that's it. I was bored out of my mind at the hour mark, and almost gave up on the movie, but then the fun really picked up, the final battle is epic, it's almost like they started conceiving the film with that last battle, and then they worked out a very generic beginning. Extremely gory with silly brutal violence, that last fight really worked, at least for me. The Nazi zombies motivation for the killing spree doesn't really make sense given their actions, but I'll give my thoughts on that in the Spoilers part. The film is so uneven that my rating should be done in two parts. First hour: 3 1/2 stars Ending: 8 stars~~~ SPOILERS !!!! ~~~~ The plot, Nazis aside, is quite unoriginal, group of young guys go to an isolated cabin, attacks ensue. Except the initial tone doesn't really work, it plays almost as suspense, but we already know who is attacking them, it's shown in the first scene when one of the ladies of the group, who was going to the cabin by herself gets killed by a Nazi zombie. So what's the suspense all about? Then a guy shows up all mysterious to the cabin, his only role is to explain how the Nazis ended up in the region, and how some evil is going on in the region, in a suspenseful way, which again doesn't work at all, since we already know that there are Nazis there. But worst, he gets killed immediately after that in his tent, so no character, just a guy that shows up in the film, and explains to us what is happening in the film. Bad writing. All the characters are very generic, I didn't get invested in any of them, so other than thinking the ways some of them were killed was really cool, I didn't feel anything for them. Then the Nazi zombies motivation for killing the group revealed at the end: they just wanted the gold they found, to the point of letting the last guy go when he gives them the gold, doesn't make sense at all, the first lady that was killed did not find the gold yet, so why was she killed by a Nazi zombie? Anyway, the last battle between the two last guys and the Nazi zombies was fantastic, it made up a lot. If you like gore, that last part alone makes the film worth watching.

"Dead Snow" or "Død snø" is a teenager-slasher-horror-comedy with Nazi- zombies and a cabin in the woods, sounds a bit cliché but don't be put off, this film is BRILLIANT!!!Ingredients: - 1 group of young sexy kids - Beer - Music - Madness - 1 Weird stranger with warnings and evil stories - Ignorance - Partying - Handful of cursed killer Nazi Zombie psychopathsThis film was brilliant, it was the "Shaun of the Dead" of Norwegian Zombie films as it brilliantly mixed comedy with horror and gore. The kids are medical students on a term break in a cabin in the woods and snow. They meet a stranger who tells them of Nazi gold and Nazi zombies. After the stranger is gone all of the stories come true throughout the film - ALL come true!!The film is entertaining and gory, it had moments of tension as well as adrenaline packed moments sprinkled with tongue in cheek humour. If you have ever wondered any of the following then watch this film:Can a human fight on despite having no intestines? - Can Zombie's communicate with each other and act out military and tactical manoeuvres? - Do Norwegian medical students actually enjoy sex after defecating? - Is Nazi Gold cursed? - Can zombie's function in snow?Directed by Tommy Wirkola who got famous with "Kill Buljo: The Movie", which is a Norwegian parody of Kill Bill. Wirkola continues in the same comedy/homage/genre category to great effect. I really really enjoyed this film and can't wait for the sequel that the end of this film potentially offers. I am that impressed with this that I have no doubt at all awarding this 9 out of 10.