Flyerplesys Perfectly adorable

Softwing Most undeservingly overhyped movie of all time??

Catangro After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

Brenda The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

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!

KineticSeoul This is a low budget Norwegian zombie movie that is directed very well. Despite the budget, it doesn't seem like a really cheap movie at all. The build up is alright but when the zombie elements hit, it's pure entertainment. This isn't a serious zombie flick, but more of a zombie comedy. The humor works without getting overly silly, although it does get ridiculous at points. They actually made a new genre with this one...Maybe. Because the zombies in this can actually think, communicate and be able to wield weapons. The mystery behind the zombies is what drives this movie. This is a fun movie to watch with your friends with some snacks.7.6/10

Prichards12345 Dead Snow has a well-crafted and suspense-building opening 40 minutes, but this goes for nothing when it turns into yet another gore-filled comedy rip-off of The Evil Dead, Shaun of The Dead, etc. As each scene got more improbable than the last, and more and more entrails, amputations and one-liners are introduced I wondered if I'd make it to the end. I did, just. Shame as the set up was good. If they'd kept it nebulous and shadowy (and reasonably serious) they might have had a little classic on their hands.Yes, it is funny, but we've been here before so many times. Movie references abound in this film but so what? The film-makers prove they are familiar with horror flicks. Is that supposed to make this movie better? Of course the usual Psueds will call it "Post Modernist" or something - which really means it has no originality at all. Steal from, er sorry post modernistically allude to The Thing, Evil Dead, The Descent, etc all you want, but it will not make a good film.In fairness the movie is well-directed and the cast likable and engaging, but still not enough to make it work. So great first 40 minutes then bereft of ideas.....