Dead Snow (2009)
Directed by Tommy Wirkola
Eight medical students on a ski trip to Norway discover that Hitler's horrors live on when they come face to face with a battalion of zombie Nazi soldiers intent on devouring anyone unfortunate enough to wander into the remote mountains where they were once sent to die.
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For young gore-hungry audiences who haven't seen "The Evil Dead" (one and two), "Dead Snow" could work as a stomach-churning thrill ride, but for more experienced viewers, you're much better off sticking with a master of the genre like Sam Raimi, whose "Drag Me to Hell" achieves everything the "Dead Snow" filmmakers attempted to do, and more.
I suspect director Tommy Wirkola has been feeding on Sam Raimi's The Evil Dead for years now.
Instead, Wirkola draws on the films he grew up with in the 80s, films like “The Evil Dead” and “Braindead.”
Cheery, silly, splattery, and respectful of its elders (and betters, particularly Sam Raimi's The Evil Dead), this bloody/cheesy subtitled Scandinavian lark is written and directed by Tommy Wirkola, who has a nice touch with severed limbs.
Under director/co-writer Tommy Wirkola, "Dead Snow" recalls countless other splatterfests, especially Sam Rami's 1983 "The Evil Dead."
He's undoubtedly right; the audience that goes for Nazi-themed horror, like Dead Snow, tends to enjoy gore, too.
The production design is great too, helping the fare escape the bargain bin imprisonment forced upon not-too-dissimilar efforts, such as Dead Snow .
After being blown out of the sky, the group is flung into the middle of a village that’s been taken over by a small but virulent group of Nazis who have a suspicious obsession with the local church on which the comm tower has been placed.When I first came across Overlord I was pretty sure it had all been done before, with films like Dead Snow and Frankenstein’s Army already covering the whole “Nazi experiments gone even wronger than you’d expect Nazi experiments to go” angle.
And the decades since have produced enough questionable efforts (Puppet Master III: Toulon’s Revenge, Dead Snow, Bloodrayne: The Third Reich) to constitute a healthy subgenre, which I’m going to dub, hmm, let’s say, "the Nazombie movie.”
If you’ve played Wolfenstein or seen horror films like Blood Creek or Dead Snow, then you’ve seen the only thing Overlord has going for it in terms of a hook.
The result plays like a mashup of “Dead Snow” (a comparatively straightforward zombie-Nazi movie), “Universal Soldier,” and the video game series “Wolfenstein.”
The threat of winter may be outside, taking the form of an unyielding adversary that can endure the harsh weather: take the shape-shifting alien from The Thing or the battalion of zombie Nazis from Dead Snow .
As it stands, file “The Ritual” – along with “Troll Hunter” and “Dead Snow” – in the “Mediocre Scandinavian Horror” drawer.