Product Description

With a car packed full of ski equipment and enough beer to fuel their escape from everyday life eight medical students head out on their Easter vacation. Isolated in the snowy hills the group begins to realize they came to the wrong resort, as deep in the hills lay an unthinkable evil. Gory, disturbing and brilliant get ready for the horror comedy of the year!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2743 in DVD
• Released on: 2009-08-31
• Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
• Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
• Formats: Anamorphic, PAL
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 90 minutes

Synopsis
DEAD SNOW received rave reviews from audiences at Sundance, promising that this Norwegian horror comedy will be a favourite for genre fans. In the film, a group of friends think they're in for a trip filled with skiing, drinking, and hooking up, but a defrosting band of Nazi zombies have something else in store for the vacationers.

Customer Reviews

The Mountain of the Dead
Eight Norwegian medical students (it's a Norwegian film, English subtitled by the way) take an Easter vacation in a mountain cabin belonging to one of them. One (Sara) decides to cross country ski there whilst the more sensible remaining seven drive before making the final few miles on foot and skidoo.

Night falls and after a day of jolly snow based japes, they settle down with beers and Twister, as you do. Sara still hasn't arrived but a taciturn stranger does. He settles back with a coffee and tells them the story of the Nazi occupation of the area during the Second World War. Led by the sadistic Colonel Herzog, the occupying forces had made the townspeople's lives a misery with abuse, rape and torture commonplace. As the war came to an end, a final act of looting and murder before the Russians arrived drove the locals to take their bloody revenge and the mountains were soaked in German blood.

In the dark, one of the students soon comes to regret the outside facilities but back in the cabin, a wooden box containing gold coins and antique jewellery is discovered. The fight to the death with the gold-hunting Nazis is on.

It's Evil Dead in the snow. But with Nazis. What's not to like ? Oceans of blood, buckets of entrails, heads flying, great scenery and some real laugh out loud moments (the soldier climbing onto the skidoo, the badly aimed Molotov cocktail) made this a very entertaining movie. Not for the squeamish, this film does what it says on the case but fans of the genre will lap this up quicker than a thirsty cat in a bucket of milk.

Like zombies, like gallons of blood, like "biting" humour...Nazis...chainsaws ? You will love this. Poor yourself a large Schnapps, sit back and enjoy the ride. Might even be worth paying a bit extra for the Blu-Ray so you can enjoy the fantastic scenery and convince yourself it's educational.

Zombie Nazis Go Skiing
I didn't expect much from this Norwegian horror and that's pretty much what I got. Despite positive reviews, I figured it would be an hour and a half of fairly mindless entertainment with some laughs. Mindless is close to the resulting film in that it has almost no original moments and very few laughs.

The plot is one we've seen many times before. Instead of the kids off to a cabin in the woods of Evil Dead, we have teens off to a cabin in the mountains. And snow. Lots of snow. It all looks extremely scenic and more than once, I found myself more interested in the background than the film itself. As for the rest of the plot, again we've seen it before. Turn the deadites from Evil Dead into Nazi zombies and you're there. Saying that, such a derivative idea didn't have to be so weak. Pile on the laughs in the black comedy way of The Cottage or Dog Soldiers, for example, and Dead Snow could have been a success. As it is, the laughs are weak and sporadic. The Molotov cocktail moment and the subsequent phone call were worthy of a giggle but not much else was.

So, the gore. There's a lot of it and those looking for OTT violence will be happy. Sadly, it fills in the moments between plot holes and repetitive attacks from dead Nazis. If you are looking for zombie violence, then you've come to the right place. If, on the other hand, you're after more than average entertainment, look elsewhere.

Dead Snow has a lot of gore but sadly doesn't have an original idea to offer the zombie genre.

It has all been said already........................
Simple plot: Bunch of students take off for a cabin in the Norwegian mountains. A stranger comes by and tells them a story from the war and to beware of evil. One by one they are bumped off. And that is the plot.
The cast does not stand out in any way. The zombie make-up seems to deteriorate as the film progresses and at one point you can see that it does not extend as far as the wrists.
Overall it does not do too badly and it is worth a viewing if you do not mind sub-titles. I would not have bought this film if I had realised it was sub-titled, but there is so little dialogue, it did not prove too much of a bother.
At least I can say I have seen it.