Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

The Worst Film Ever

Absolutely brilliant

Blistering performances.

One of the best zombie comedies of recent years and what I like is not only the implementation of evil Nazi-Zombie-Commandos but the good shot of blood and guts. It is a comedy, yes, but it has enough splatter so even the connoisseur of all horrors and bloodbath in us is not only satisfied but pleased.Død snø directed by Tommy Wirkola (Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters) belongs into every collection of a serious zombie/walker related stuff addict. Død snø 2 is also a fine one with more production value, but if I would have only the choice to choose one of both movies, I would prefer the first movie.

Director Tommy Wirkola wears his influences on his sleeve, using derivative horror tropes and familiar source material in this snowbound Nazi zombie action film.Wirkola's failed "Hansel and Gretel: Witchhunters" movie was referred to as "the best Evil Dead sequel we never got" by Felix Vasquez Jr at Cinema Crazed.com, and that pretty much sums up this better, but inessential horror comedy project. Story features a group of puerile, foul mouthed "teens", (actually late twentysomethings, and further) hanging out in the snow in a holiday hut. Their combination of mall-friendly, potty mouthed humor, and smug peer-bonded contempt is reminiscent of practically every movie in the 80s "Friday the 13th" genre, or actually reminiscent of the worst aspects of public school life for fourteen year olds that are too mature, sensitive or intelligent to find tasteless sex and poop jokes to be a sign of great leadership and charisma.Anyway, these freaks get drunk out in the snow, and then there's sex and various "hey, where did Danny go?" scare gags until, horribly, it turns out that they're being hunted by zombie Nazis, preserved under the snow for decades. The Nazis are violent, mostly speechless and like ripping heads, arms and stomachs to pieces. The actual zombie make-up is very second rate, but a lot of the gore effects are "top notch" if you like this kind of thing. Moreover, low budget productions for this generation look a lot better than their poor cousins from decades ago due to digital compositing and color grading tricks that make the film look great, although somewhat limited due to unusually long periods where the director of photography uses only medium close-up shots. If there's a 'language of cinema', camera director Matthew Weston apparently has never heard of it, because large chunks of the first and second part of the story are framed like camera-phone footage.That aside, the film also suffers from a total lack of originality, from the 80s slasher setup in the "plot" to the fact that numerous gags and scare scenes are lifted directly from Sam Raimis 'Evil Dead 2' and Peter Jacksons 'Braindead'. To its advantage, the movie DOES feature a hell of a lot of snow, and the idea of zombies emerging from beneath snow, and numerous scenes where characters are submerged or fighting in snow ads a bit of a "novel twist", also the sequel was rated as considerably better than this film by most major critics, which is pretty cool, I guess.Subtitled in Norwegian.

~~~Non-Spoiler part~~~ This is a very uneven film. In the beginning it uses every cliché of the cabin in the woods, group of young people in isolation, zombie flick, no funny twists/takes on zombie, in fact the Nazi zombies could be just zombies and practically nothing would change. I thought they could have done something more fun and interesting with the zombies being Nazi, but they are just zombies, OK, the outfit looks cool, but that's it. I was bored out of my mind at the hour mark, and almost gave up on the movie, but then the fun really picked up, the final battle is epic, it's almost like they started conceiving the film with that last battle, and then they worked out a very generic beginning. Extremely gory with silly brutal violence, that last fight really worked, at least for me. The Nazi zombies motivation for the killing spree doesn't really make sense given their actions, but I'll give my thoughts on that in the Spoilers part. The film is so uneven that my rating should be done in two parts. First hour: 3 1/2 stars Ending: 8 stars~~~ SPOILERS !!!! ~~~~ The plot, Nazis aside, is quite unoriginal, group of young guys go to an isolated cabin, attacks ensue. Except the initial tone doesn't really work, it plays almost as suspense, but we already know who is attacking them, it's shown in the first scene when one of the ladies of the group, who was going to the cabin by herself gets killed by a Nazi zombie. So what's the suspense all about? Then a guy shows up all mysterious to the cabin, his only role is to explain how the Nazis ended up in the region, and how some evil is going on in the region, in a suspenseful way, which again doesn't work at all, since we already know that there are Nazis there. But worst, he gets killed immediately after that in his tent, so no character, just a guy that shows up in the film, and explains to us what is happening in the film. Bad writing. All the characters are very generic, I didn't get invested in any of them, so other than thinking the ways some of them were killed was really cool, I didn't feel anything for them. Then the Nazi zombies motivation for killing the group revealed at the end: they just wanted the gold they found, to the point of letting the last guy go when he gives them the gold, doesn't make sense at all, the first lady that was killed did not find the gold yet, so why was she killed by a Nazi zombie? Anyway, the last battle between the two last guys and the Nazi zombies was fantastic, it made up a lot. If you like gore, that last part alone makes the film worth watching.

This is a low budget Norwegian zombie movie that is directed very well. Despite the budget, it doesn't seem like a really cheap movie at all. The build up is alright but when the zombie elements hit, it's pure entertainment. This isn't a serious zombie flick, but more of a zombie comedy. The humor works without getting overly silly, although it does get ridiculous at points. They actually made a new genre with this one...Maybe. Because the zombies in this can actually think, communicate and be able to wield weapons. The mystery behind the zombies is what drives this movie. This is a fun movie to watch with your friends with some snacks.7.6/10