Review of Dead Snow (2009) by Jukka H — 24 Jun 2011
Will be a little generous and give it 80%. I se a review beside mine saying a new twist on zombies, nazi zombies. It's been done, just not this well.
The story is bland, the characters and acting are bad (I have watched lots of foreign films, this is amateurish), the one thing this film has going for it is the Nazi Zombies. I think the leader was Herzog, same as the great director.
Herzog commands a whole damn division of SS officers who are cursed on a frozen mountain to protect their stolen Nazi loot. They explode out of the snow and attack full on. The zombies and attack/gore scenes were all top notch and were the main appeal to this film. I cheered the zombies, like I would Freddy or Jason or PinHead or Mike Myers.... I understand there is a sequal on the way and good. I want more of Herzog and his undead snow nazis. Really this movie is only a 40% flick, the zombies impressed me so much though it gets 80. I hope in the Sequal it is more of a prequel and we see the back story more from WWII.
Also I saw this compared to Evil Dead. I can understand why in some ways but this is no Sam Raimi film, lacked humour, zaniness, an antagonist really. So no, this is not the Norwegian Evil Dead, far from it. If it was then it'd be 100%.
This review of Dead Snow (2009) was written by Jukka H on 24 Jun 2011.
Dead Snow has generally received mixed reviews.
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