The movie was decently funny but there was a lot of ripping out zombies organs.... one of the reviews compared it to Shaun of the Dead, it wasn't anything like it. Shaun of the dead didn't have this much gore and was really funny. This movie made me laugh twice and I wanted to vomit the rest of the time.

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.

Well, no subtitles maybe - but that's a personal preference.Anyway, Dead Snow is a Norwegian zombie film where seven friends head into the mountains for a weekend of... oh, it doesn't matter why, only that they encounter some pretty nasty zombies - and Nazi zombies to boot (so I guess that makes them doubly nasty?).The one thing you should know about Dead Snow is that it doesn't take itself too seriously. Think of it as more of a horror comedy than anything that will really scare you. It's very open about paying homage to other horror films (one character even wears a Braindead T-shirt). So, the blood flows, the body parts fly, the pretty girls scream in terror - what more do you want? Oh, and as I mentioned, there are subtitles. If that's a turn off for you, you better know before you watch. However, the song near the end of the film during one of the most crazy and amusing slaughters ever captured on film if definitely better sung in the film's native tongue than English.If you like daft. If you like zombies. And if you like blood, then you should definitely get an hour and a half's enjoyment out of this.

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