Film Festival 09 - Dead Snow
Dead Snow
Død snø, Norway 2008, 91m
Director: Tommy Wirkola
Festivals: Sundance 2009
Horror fans may been feeling a little satiated with the recent glut
of zombie pics. I mean, how many ways can you skin a cat (and eat
it)? Two words: Nazi Zombies. This giddy Norwegian splatterfest was
the midnight romp at Sundance, an utterly unapologectic throwback
to the gory days of 80s zombie flicks. Director Tommy Wirkola
previously made a homage to Kill Bill, so you know he wears his
influences on his bloody sleeve. In Dead Snow a bunch of horny
chicks and horror movie nerds end up in a remote cabin in the snowy
wilderness and then& well, you know. The flick prides itself on
ticking every 80s cliché from; the pop culture riffs to the
crazy dude who talks about impending doom, to the idiotic
characters having inappropriate sex, to, most important of all, the
wildly inventive and disgusting gore FX. Yippee! It's commitment to
being dumb bloody fun makes it one intoxicating and funny
euro-grue-brew. - Ant Timpson
In Norwegian with English subtitles
