It’s time for fans of international horror films to shift their attention from East Asia to Northern Europe. Over the past few years, Scandinavia has quietly produced some of the most accomplished scare pictures, including such SIFF favorites as Norway’s Cold Prey and Sweden’s Let the Right One In. However, with Dead Snow, Norwegian director Tommy Wirkola replaces the quiet and subtle with Nazi zombies and kamikaze snowmobiles. Eight Norwegian medical students travel to an isolated lodge to enjoy their Easter vacation on the slopes. But on their first night in the lodge, a strange hiker visits them and relates a tale from recent history when the Nazis occupied the local township under the ironfisted Colonel Herzog. After three years of brutal rule, the townsfolk chased Herzog and his men into the mountains where they were believed to have frozen to death. Uh, not exactly. When the friends find a small cache of gold in their lodge … well, is there anything Nazi zombies love more than gold? Now the medical students must flee the slopes while fending off Herzog’s zombie onslaught. By equal measures raucous and terrifying, Dead Snow always provides good bloody (and gory) fun.
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