Nato – Dead Snow
Hey, remember how I was picking selections earlier and mentioned how I also wholeheartedly recommended Dead Snow as well, but didn’t have room on my list? Well guess what appears in the “Foreign” film sub-genre of horror! Yes, Dead Snow absolutely deserves its own shout out (in my opinion), even though some of my horror loving brethren wrote this Norwegian zombie flick off. Not really sure why – it’s got a ton of hilarious references to American cinema, is insanely gory, and has evil Nazi zombies! Well, Nazis are pretty much inherently evil, aren’t they? You aren’t going to find many nice Nazi’s I’d assume – especially undead ones.
The formula is generic – take some medical students who are looking to unwind and plop them on a snow-covered mountain in a remote cabin, have them discover some cursed gold, and let the zombies attack. Students being stalked in the middle of nowhere, we’ve seen it before, right?
Yes, of course we have, but writer/director Tommy Wirkola is so damn focused on having as much bloody fun as possible. He creates this insanely inviting ode to the zombie genre, hacking up limbs and stringing along amazing death scenes that should make zombie fans heil Wirkola! (Yup, going to hell.) I’m almost positive there wasn’t a single white patch of snow left, dyed a deep red from numerous slayings. Plus, Evil Dead reference anyone? See if you can spot it.