Saw Dead Snow, an action horror about a group of sexy Norwegian twenty-somethings who go on a skiing/camping/wilderness adventure of some kind. Anyway, there they are in the cabin in the woods and, yup you guessed it, zombies. Not just zombies, Nazi zombies. That by itself should pretty much tell you if this movie is for you or not. The film is clearly borrowing heavily from Sam Raimi's Evil Dead series (it even name-checks it fairly early on) so there's jump scares galore. Everything is an opportunity to make you jump, even just closing a door suddenly gets a soundtrack sting. It's ridiculous but this is everything-and-the-kitchen-sink style horror, so love it or leave it.
Once the protagonists accept that, yes, they are being attacked by zombies and start fighting back, we get some nicely kickass scenes. There's one moment when the heroes use a hammer and sickle to kill one of the Nazi zombies which I thought was one of those moments that's so sly and clever, I wish it had been in a better movie. There's also some scenes which grossed me out a bit. Without going into details, let's just say that all of the protagonists are pre-med and jury-rig some emergency medical procedures. Ick. Also there's one moment (pre-zombie attack) when one character just straight-up starts smothering his girlfriend with a pillow. It's supposed to be a slightly creepy scene, but only slightly. I guess attempted murder is kind of not-so-serious in Norway.
It should surprize no one that I didn't really dig this film. It was too goofy and silly for me. That mixed with jump-scares results in a perfect storm of disinterest from me. That said, if you're kind of a horror junkie, this certainly isn't a bad film. It's basically another Evil Dead film, but with more running around outdoors.
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