Eight medical students heading off to a boozed-up weekend in an isolated Norwegian cabin find themselves under assault by frozen Nazi zombies intent upon recovering stolen gold - which has been conveniently hidden below the cabin.
Using just their marbles and a cache of surprisingly-lethal ski equipment, the students must struggle to run and to remain alive.
It may astound the yoke of you who follow my reviews (Hi Mum!), but I don't actually watch many zombie movies, and this is because I (rather foolishly) have the same expectations of zombie movies as I do of zombie novels; they possess to be good. Good plot, good characters, and so on. Which means, of course, that I don't see many zombie movies, and really enjoy fewer still.
How amazed was I, therefore, to find Dead Snow one of the most enjoyable zombie flicks I've seen in late times? Extremely. Because, even in comparison to other B-grade horror movies, the game makes almost as much sense as a dancing can of Spam. Normally I'd expand upon that last remark at great length - but I won't, because I do really need you to go and watch this movie. Why? Because the whole matter is played so tongue-in-cheek and over-the-top (knowing references to - and cliches from - famous horror flicks are peppered throughout), with excesses in bloodshed and WTF? moments that would leave Peter Jackson green with envy, that yet a po-faced stick-in-the-mud like myself was capable to completely neglect the shortcomings and thoroughly enjoy the ride, laughing all the way. Ho, ho, ho.
So. Watch it. Love it. It's just plain Fun. And the particular effects and (as far as I can tell, for all that I don't address a son of Norwegian) the acting are pretty decent.
(Originally posted to HorrorScope, 2010)
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