Dead Snow

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  • Opened June 19, 2009 
  • 1 hr 30 min
  • NR
  • For eight medical students, Easter vacation begins innocently enough. They pack their cars full of ski equipment and enough beer to fuel their escape from everyday life to the snowy, isolated hills outside of Øksfjord, Norway. Once there, they receive a late-night visit from a shady hiker, who tells them a story about Nazi occupation of the area during World War II. After doing their fair share of raping and pillaging, the dreaded battalion faced a brutal and vengeful uprising by the citizens of the town. The soldiers who managed to survive the onslaught, including their dreaded leader Colonel Herzog, were driven into the hills by the angry mob, where they supposedly froze to death, never to be seen again. But if the horror genre has taught us anything, it’s that the raucous behavior and promiscuity of the younger generation always have a way of bringing evil spirits back to life. Full synopsis

  • Cast: Vegar Hoel, Stig Frode Henriksen, Charlotte Frogner, Jenny Skavlan, Jeppe Beck Laursen, Lasse Valdal
  • Director: Tommy Wirkola
  • Genres: Horror

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Dead Snow: A romp in the snow with dysfunctional Nazi zombies

by johnmosbrook

I liked it. It had a good EAT! I gave it a 99 as they used to say on American Bandstand. Dead Snow is the touching, sensitive story about a wild band of Nazi SS zombies killed in Norway during WWII...

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Chicago Tribune
| Michael Phillips

May have a dull title, but it's lively, idiotic fun, at least until it goes too far past "too far" into the realm of "far too far." Read full review

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New York Post
| V.A. Musetto

Wirkola keeps the narrative taut, wasting not a frame; and he throws in funny moments. Read full review

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Entertainment Weekly
| Lisa Schwarzbaum

Cheery, silly, splattery, and respectful of its elders (and betters, particularly Sam Raimi's "The Evil Dead"). Read full review

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Rolling Stone
| Peter Travers

If you tamp down your expectations -- those gaping plot holes are dangerous! -- there is a storm of scary fun to be had in this Scandinavian splatterfest. Read full review

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A scene in "Dead Snow."