colin sproule :-);-)

Just hur­ried back from the plaza, it’s chilly! So happy to live blocks away this year. Dead Snow was sold out and we had a great time.

This group of friends thought they had all they needed for a suc­cess­ful Easter vaca­tion: cabin, skis, snow­mo­bile, tobog­gan, copi­ous amounts of beer, and a fer­tile mix of the sexes. Cer­tainly, none of them antic­i­pated not return­ing home alive! But, the Nazi-zombie bat­tal­ion haunt­ing the moun­tains sur­round­ing the aptly named Øksfjord (Axe­fjord) had other plans…

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With KILL BULJO –THE MOVIE director/scriptwriter Tommy Wirkola at the helm, the added enthu­si­asm of co-writer Stig Frode Hen­rik­sen, and a ded­i­cated crew, DEAD SNOW proves that you don’t need a big bud­get to cre­ate a phe­nom­e­non. This ground­break­ing Nor­we­gian Nazi-zombie movie fea­tures estab­lished actors and stel­lar spe­cial effects (the effects bud­get alone amounts to $600,000, more than any other Nor­we­gian movie). No less than 475 quarts of blood were used in the scenes where the Nazi‐zombie sol­diers arise from their graves and attack the unsus­pect­ing heroes. A very dif­fer­ent kind of hor­ror film, this feelgood‐Nazi‐zombie‐splatter‐comedy will sat­isfy even the most dis­cern­ing gore afi­cionado.
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I sure love zom­bie films so of course I was excited to see Dead Snow and I must say it lived up. The begin­ning had me ques­tion­ing if this was actu­ally a zom­bie movie or a typ­i­cal young peo­ple in the woods hor­ror instead. Alas a young man sud­denly has his head ripped in two and things quickly esca­lated to full on nazi zom­bie gore hilarity.

Like many Zom­bie film this one pays homage to past greats of the genre and that was cer­tainly appre­ci­ated by the audi­ence. There are some hilar­i­ous scenes includ­ing a char­ac­ter fight­ing a zom­bie while hang­ing off a cliff by another zom­bies intestines as well as a cer­tain ampu­ta­tion scene. As long as you can let go of the need for a seri­ous hor­ror vibe or a plot that isn’t full of holes you’ll enjoy this.

The film deliv­ers what it promises and with a fan­tas­tic full house audi­ence of excited zom­bie fans it was a joy to watch. Screen­ings like this are the rea­son of love film fest.

Rat­ing: 9/10