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| Nazi Zombies! |
This film is horrific and frightening but is far too over the top to seem scary or in anyway realistic. The excessive gore is coupled perfectly with the absurdity of the films premise, the overall idea of a film featuring nazi zombies is in its self crazy and ridiculous. Dead Snow shares a similar style and humor to films such as Brain Dead, Black Sheep, The Evil Dead etc. in that the situation and violence are taken to such an extreme that they become comical.
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| A copious amount of blood. |
Like many other slasher films of this ilk, the movie starts when a group of young adults decide to go and spend their holidays in a cabin off in the middle of no where. After arriving at the cabin the gang are visited by a strange local guy who warns them that there is evil lurking in the hills. The stranger gives a long ex-positional speech all about how the nazis were stationed in the area and were nasty to the locals and stole their possessions. The cabin, the stranger and the talk of an 'evil presence' are all so cliched that it becomes hard to take the film seriously and instead the viewer is dragged into a tongue and cheek horror romp, this is made all the more funny when the nazi zombies start to appear.
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| These natzis are pissed! |
This film is fun to watch and still packs quite a punch in terms of sheer horror and gore, the plot and characters development are fairly obvious and straight forward, there are no big surprises in this film. Early on we discover that one of the characters is scared of blood and another has claustrophobia, rather unsurprisingly one ends up covered in blood while the other becomes trapped beneath an avalanche.
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| The group find a box of gold that the natzis stole from the local community. |
Beyond the interesting and original idea of nazi zombies in the snow the rest of the film is very average. There are far better horror/comedy films out there to enjoy and although this film is good for some easy going and pretty mindless entertainment, it doesn't hold a candle to such films as Shaun of the Dead, The Cottage, Tucker and Dale Vs Evil etc. If you don't want a film that's too challenging and you'd rather not have to think much about the plot then give it a try, it is a fun film to watch although I would not rank it too highly. You may wish to watch it so you can tick it off your list.
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