Dead Snow
The movie Dead Snow has the same cliché plot where a group of young generation kids wanted to have a great time out and it turned out to be a vacation to remember for the rest of the lives as it got punctuated with horripilate incidents.
The attraction of the vacation was play-n-fun-with snow, but what it turned out was high dose of fear with evil playing bad games at every step. As the young ones stumble upon some indestructible malevolence on a far-flung mountainside, evil in the form of Nazi zombies is what they are greeted with.
The premise of this film is rightly set in the times just after the Second World War Here; it’s the Nazi Zombies who strikes the right panic in the lives of the young adults. Just after the World War-II, a group of Nazi soldiers were forced to flee away into the mountainside to survive a chase by an angry mob.
It is after some years down the line that eight friends who were medical students decided to have some fun time with a ski trip down the same mountainside.
The few-minutes trailer of this movie has been a perfect setting for the audience to get an idea of how bad and horrifying can good things turn out to be. Again, many scenes and shots are directly taken from the film Evil Dead; you will know it instantly if you have watched them. The movie is punctuated with few comedies here and there but that seems quite unrelated with the motion of the movie. Imperfections very much prevailed in the film just like the Nazis uniforms and that is creepy flashlight illumination.
The film truly gets extremely murky and gory at times as it was blood that was used in most scenes of the movie. Human intestine was in rife as all around in display was plenty of body organs. As far as the acting is concerned, there is no central character or hero in the film so the director simply can start killing anybody and everybody. But you will see some amazing performance by Charlotte Frogner, Sundquist and Vegar Hoel.
In the world of horror comedies, Dead Snow stands out with some unfamiliar twists and turns although there is nothing new that the director gave us; it’s recycling the same plot. If you take away those gory details of blood, free flow and strewn body organs and obviously the Nazi zombies, then the movie can well be promoted by the Norwegian director as a tourist video. But, yes if you are going to watch Dead Snow, you are more interested to get into the details of Nazi zombies.
One should not get surprised if Dead Snow throws hints of sequel down the coming years as there are plenty of Nazi zombies around those mountains. The director and co-write can pick up any of the threads to sew another one with murkier details than its forerunner.
Film: Dead Snow
Cast: Stig Frode Henrickson, Vegar Hoel, Lasse Valdal, Charlotte Frogner, Bjorn Sundquist
Director: Tommy Wirkola
Writer: Tommy Wirkola and Stig Frode Henriksen
Rating: 2/5
Posted on Sunday, July 19th, 2009 at 6:36 pm
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