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Dead Snow

Død snø

Norway

2009

91 Min
Color
1.85:1
Norwegian
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DIR Tommy Wirkola

EXEC Espen Horn, Kjetil Omberg, Harald Zwart

PROD Tomas Evjen, Terje Stroemstad

SCR Stig Frode Henriksen, Tommy Wirkola

DP Matthew Weston

CAST Charlotte Frogner, Ørjan Gamst, Stig Frode Henriksen, Vegar Hoel, Jeppe Laursen

ED Martin Stoltz

PROD DES Liv Ask

Synopsis

A group of medical students unloads an ample supply of beer and there is nothing to indicate that their stay at a mountain cabin won’t be utterly relaxing. Some of them sneer at an uninvited guest who tells them the story of a Nazi unit that froze to death nearby during the Second World War. And yet one shouldn’t discount mysterious nighttime guests – at least not when they appear in a zombie bloodfest comedy like this one. This self-conscious movie works with irony and black humor to wittily vary and even make use of the genre’s typical attributes. The characters here are not intended for quick slaughter. Instead they courageously fight against superior odds, and the film allows them to live long enough for us to judge their eventual demise a disappointment. Several parallel plot lines add to the tension and interest in the developing situation. How many of the protagonists will escape the "zombie pickle”? And by what inventive means will those not slated to survive depart from this world? –kviff.com

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amin

18Mar13

first of all...what da fuck?i mean if u wanna make a zombie-horror make it right...zombies dont run asshole....

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    Ale/M

    18Mar13

    This is not the first time we see zombies running fast..

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film_lies101

9Sep12

How do you fuck up Nazi Zombies?

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dschank

15Jul12

conventional and enjoyable. pick up a sixpack and invite friends over first.

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Coheed 2.5

22May12

After the inspired and hilarious pre-credit sequence using 'In The Hall of The Mountain King', it's disappointing how safe and uninteresting the rest of the film is. Like a lot of post-Millennium horror cinema, it's a solid movie but merely a regurgitation of horror conventions and references which never braves its own path of gore or kicks the viewer in the genitals.

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DEAD SNOW Hits Canadian Screens This Week!

By Twitchfilm.com on May 17, 2011
Get it while you can!  Obviously knowing a good thing when they see it, Canadian distributor E1 Entertainment is giving Norwegian zombie comedy Dead Snow a limited theatrical release this week, with the
read on Twitchfilm.com

DEAD SNOW Review

By Twitchfilm.com on May 17, 2011
It has been an odd experience tracking the post-Sundance coverage of Tommy Wirkola’s Norwegian zombie picture Dead Snow, with more than one review offering criticisms along the lines of "If you take away
read on Twitchfilm.com

TADFF 09: Død snø / Dead Snow

By Twitchfilm.com on May 17, 2011
In advance of the zombie apocalypse that will descend upon The Bloor Cinema tonight for zombie day at Toronto After Dark I’ll put up my review for Død snø now. The advantages of doing what we do you see……
read on Twitchfilm.com

DEAD SNOW Review

By Twitchfilm.net on July 17, 2010
It has been an odd experience tracking the post-Sundance coverage of Tommy Wirkola’s Norwegian zombie picture Dead Snow, with more than one review offering criticisms along the lines of "If you take away
read on Twitchfilm.net

TADFF 09: Død snø / Dead Snow

By Twitchfilm.net on July 17, 2010
In advance of the zombie apocalypse that will descend upon The Bloor Cinema tonight for zombie day at Toronto After Dark I’ll put up my review for Død snø now. The advantages of doing what we do you see…
read on Twitchfilm.net

DEAD SNOW Hits Canadian Screens This Week!

By Twitchfilm.net on July 17, 2010
Get it while you can!  Obviously knowing a good thing when they see it, Canadian distributor E1 Entertainment is giving Norwegian zombie comedy Dead Snow a limited theatrical release this week, with the
read on Twitchfilm.net

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Sadly, the film never manages to deliver anything else apart from it's outrageous premise

By Henrik Schunk on January 13, 2012

Quote from the synopsis: “Eight medical students on a ski trip to Norway discover that Hitler’s horrors live on when they come face to face with a battalion of undead Nazi soldiers”. You can tell pretty…  read review

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By morita on November 21, 2009

Otra insípida y aburrida película que intenta ser de culto y que no hay que molestarse en ver, y sobre la que yo no debería molestarme en escribir, pero lo voy a hacer igual para prevenir a los que…  read review

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