12 July 2009

Dead Snow (Tommy Wirkola, 2009)

10/10
I had so much fun watching this movie. Seeing it with a rambunctious festival crowd probably helped, and the fact that I thought it was a straight horror at the start made the funny parts that much funnier, but even so, it was a blast. The plot is all-too familiar: a bunch of attractive young people isolate themselves at a cabin in the (snowy) woods, they receive an ominous warning from a mysterious stranger they dismiss as being crazy, and then the zombies attack. The Nazi zombies, I might add. Which has at least some relevance (Nazi Germany had a very large presence in Norway during the war) but really, is not quite integral to the film. And seems to have some people up in arms, especially with the way the film ends. Whatever. If you can't watch this movie without laughing your head off, wincing at some of the gore and kills, and get a good jump scare every now and then, you don't have a pulse. A perfect mix of horror and humor and probably one of the best zombie movies I can think of in recent years.

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