Review of Dead Snow (2009) by Garry A — 01 Mar 2015

I mean what's not to like about Nazi zombies, honestly. Then again, this film could be poorly made, written, or acted. I'm not gonna sit here and suggest that the acting or the writing were truly that great, but the film does have an enthusiastic tone and it certainly pays tribute to some of the films that inspired it.

There's also some plenty of great gore to boot. I will admit that, until the climactic act of the film, I would've rated this film to be average. That's not necessarily a bad thing for horror movies since it is easier to make a shitty a horror movie than it is to make any other type of film.

And by easy I mean the fact that there's so many more avenues for someone to fuck up a horror movie. Whether through lazy writing, shitty acting, or even worse gore, horror movies are generally have an easier time to be awful than other genres.

I realize that sounds strange, but that's the way it is. But I digress, an average score, for a horror movie, is considerably better than an average score for, say, a comedy. Because at least the movie isn't bad and, sometimes, horror geeks just want a horror movie that's not bad.

But, thankfully, this film's last act got pretty crazy and it definitely elevated the movie past the average territory into a good one. This is very obviously a low-budget film, but I think they definitely made the most out of it with some great gory and campy moments.

This is a film that does not take itself too seriously. And, I mean, come on. A film about Nazi zombies, can anyone truly take that seriously in this day and age? Maybe if this had come post-WW2, then it would've had a chance.

Not today, and to their credit, they realize this and they definitely make the movie as campy as possible so you can get some laughs out of the entire thing. And it works, while it certainly takes a while, I found this to be a fun little movie.

Nothing that would've set the world on fire, but it would entertain you for 90 minutes. And that's exactly what it did and, because of that, I would definitely recommend this film to horror geeks, if you haven't seen it already.

A fun time will be had by all. Good stuff here.