Eye Candy #38 - "Dead Snow"

Dead Snow: Thank goodness for Nazis. I mean that. If it wasn’t for Nazis, we would have been deprived of a solid movie villain group for decades, and frankly the alternatives were a lot less snappy. Imagine “Raiders of the Lost Ark” without melting Nazi faces. It wouldn’t be the same movie. So I guess it was only a matter of time before the peanut butter and chocolate combination of Nazis and zombies would finally come together. Billed as the “greatest Nazi zombie movie ever made” (of which I’m sure the field is very deep), “Dead Snow” is their love child. 7 young Norwegians head up into the mountains near Oksfjord for a weekend of snow, sex, and fun. It's like a Juicy Fruit commercial. Except in Norwegian. Unbeknownst to them and revealed by a creepy old man, the area around Oksfjord is haunted by its past involving German SS commandoes that occupied the area during World War 2, led by Standartenfuhrer Herzog. It seems that the dead rest uneasily and soon Nazi zombies descend upon the ‘wegians and ridiculous carnage ensues. This movie reminded me of “Dead Alive”, Peter Jackson’s gross-out opus where gore and blood were the order of the day. Zombies are stomped, stabbed, disemboweled, run over by snowmobiles, shot, and chainsawed, as the ‘wegians try to survive as the Nazi zombies pick them off. Also sending up various zombie film conventions, its tongue is planted firmly in cheek. Not for all tastes as it is pretty gory, but it was fun for what it was. It’s a 3 ½-er. Woodchuck sez, “Me likey.”