HuffPost Review: Dead Snow

What can we learn from Dead Snow?

That the winter light in Norway is a consistent deep blue. And that, unlike normal zombies, Nazi zombies can run.

Who knew that Norway had such a thriving strain of modern horror films? Last year's Let the Right One In was a darkly comic coming-of-age story of a friendless preteen who falls in love with a vampire girl his age.

And now Dead Snow arrives, bearing tales of Nazi zombies roaming ski country in Norway.

Director Tommy Wirkola's film is gruesomely funny in a Sam Raimi/George Romero vein: over the top, Grand Guignol violence, including one guy actually being torn limb from limb.

It's the simplest kind of story, so simple the young medical students escaping for a weekend of debauchery at a mountain cabin comment upon it: "How many movies have you seen where a group of people go into the woods and die?" one character asks.

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Comments

[Steamboater]

I don't watch films where bodies get torn apart for the 'fun' of it any more. That's all we seem to get, crap with blood and guts spilled all over the screen. Dramas like "Doubt" are few and far between. That was a violent film too but one where the violence isn't in your face. Sometimes in order to be more effective the audience has to imagine something terrible that's happened and let it's mind do the viewing instead of their eyes. We've become so immune to gore on the screen that it's not surprising that the violence in Iraq etc hardly affected America's support for the war in Iraq during Bush's time in office and why so many still support torture. 'Art' and life are surely one and the same.