Stevecorp Don't listen to the negative reviews

TrueHello Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

TaryBiggBall It was OK. I don't see why everyone loves it so much. It wasn't very smart or deep or well-directed.

Rio Hayward All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

TonyMontana96 (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.

SnoopyStyle 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.

maxastree Director Tommy Wirkola wears his influences on his sleeve, using derivative horror tropes and familiar source material in this snowbound Nazi zombie action film.Wirkola's failed "Hansel and Gretel: Witchhunters" movie was referred to as "the best Evil Dead sequel we never got" by Felix Vasquez Jr at Cinema Crazed.com, and that pretty much sums up this better, but inessential horror comedy project. Story features a group of puerile, foul mouthed "teens", (actually late twentysomethings, and further) hanging out in the snow in a holiday hut. Their combination of mall-friendly, potty mouthed humor, and smug peer-bonded contempt is reminiscent of practically every movie in the 80s "Friday the 13th" genre, or actually reminiscent of the worst aspects of public school life for fourteen year olds that are too mature, sensitive or intelligent to find tasteless sex and poop jokes to be a sign of great leadership and charisma.Anyway, these freaks get drunk out in the snow, and then there's sex and various "hey, where did Danny go?" scare gags until, horribly, it turns out that they're being hunted by zombie Nazis, preserved under the snow for decades. The Nazis are violent, mostly speechless and like ripping heads, arms and stomachs to pieces. The actual zombie make-up is very second rate, but a lot of the gore effects are "top notch" if you like this kind of thing. Moreover, low budget productions for this generation look a lot better than their poor cousins from decades ago due to digital compositing and color grading tricks that make the film look great, although somewhat limited due to unusually long periods where the director of photography uses only medium close-up shots. If there's a 'language of cinema', camera director Matthew Weston apparently has never heard of it, because large chunks of the first and second part of the story are framed like camera-phone footage.That aside, the film also suffers from a total lack of originality, from the 80s slasher setup in the "plot" to the fact that numerous gags and scare scenes are lifted directly from Sam Raimis 'Evil Dead 2' and Peter Jacksons 'Braindead'. To its advantage, the movie DOES feature a hell of a lot of snow, and the idea of zombies emerging from beneath snow, and numerous scenes where characters are submerged or fighting in snow ads a bit of a "novel twist", also the sequel was rated as considerably better than this film by most major critics, which is pretty cool, I guess.Subtitled in Norwegian.

gilligan1965 I've always loved European horror films, but, for the last several years I've been watching "A LOT" of European horror films because they hold little or nothing back! They openly show grotesque scenes (which amounts to realism), and, creativeness (which amounts to a good story). One without the other is no good for a horror movie because too much gore in a horror film without a story is stupid; and, a great horror story without gore sucks! However, the two of these elements together make a great movie! Scandinavia doesn't come out with nearly as many horror movies as the US, but, when they do, they're monumental...i.e. - "The Seventh Seal" (1957, Sweden); "Nightwatch" (1994, Denmark); "Sauna" (2008, Finland); "Dragon Tattoo Trilogy" (2009, Sweden); "Trollhunter" (2010, Norway); etc.To me, "Dead Snow" is a movie with great effects and a creative story! Although, I don't like slasher films where young people, especially women, are killed by some psychopathic (human) weirdo ("Friday the 13th" and "Halloween")...in this film, they are killed by Nazi-Zombies (monsters) for stealing from their Nazi-Zombie loot. I guess it's a Satanic/Occult thing where everyone is at risk, regardless of whom you are. Then, again, I wonder why these Nazi-Zombies killed Turgåer...he didn't steal anything, and, he wasn't in the group who did!?!? I guess he just got caught-up in the unfair gears of Satanist/Occultist/Nazism and was killed through association!?!? WHATEVER! I find this to be a very good horror movie with a good story and a lot of gore which is somewhat based upon Nazi/Norway World War II fact that a creative storyteller built upon and made.I give this eight stars!