Who likes a good zombie film? I certainly do. How about Zombies that are also Nazis? Again, I do. Nazi and zombie are two words that together always get's my attention. To me zombies or the un-dead are evil. Nazis are also evil. So Nazi Zombies are REALLY EVIL. And any film, no, anything that has them both as the baddies will always intrigue me.  Død Snø (from now on I’ll just call it Dead Snow) is exactly this, so I had to watch it. Unfortunately, it was subtitled as the film is Norwegian. Subtitles tend to put me off a film as I normally watch a film while chatting on the net or something but I persisted with Dead Snow. I have to say the subtitles aren’t really needed as it’s not hard to guess what they’d be saying and quick a lot of words sound similar to their English equivalent.

The first part of the film is pretty much the standard story setter for so many horror films, a quick scene showing something bad happening then a quick cut to the real start of the film. A group of young male and female medical students are going on a trip for Easter break. There’s the normal set of characters in the group including the film geek, the "pretty boy",  the inappropriate/drunk/”doesn’t really want to be there” one, easily scared one, the horny one and the one who acts like Rambo later in the film. So they get to their  destination (a log cabin in the mountains), have some fun, drink some beer, find something of interest (gold, silver and shiny things) and then one or two get spooked by something that isn’t the thing they should be scared by. In this case, it’s a man who wants to warn them about the scary history of area. That history is Nazis who treated the locals bad, killing and stealing from them.

Up to this point it’s the same as any horror film. Luckily this is where it strays away from the normal rubbish Hollywood churns out. Oh, not before a quick sex scene in which there is no nudity. Not giving anything any here as it kind of what you are expecting… some catches a glimpse of the thing (obviously they don’t know what it is yet). They then go missing and here’s where it really starts.

What I really like about this film is that the zombies aren’t your average brain dead creature that aimlessly wonders around until there’s something to eat and being Nazis zombies is a big plus. They use weapons and don’t instantly go for the bite. They are also semi organised with Colonel Herzog as their leader. There are plenty of gross/funny (depending how you normally feel about this type of film) deaths, both with zombies are the humans, which is really what a film like this is and should always be about. There was a bit too much dependence on intestines. Then again, the scary guy at the start did mention that so I’ll forgive and there’s plenty of other ways in which people die.  My favourite death scene in Dead Snow had to be where one of the girls - who had been caught and was having her insides eaten - manages to grab one of the Nazi zombie’s grenades and lets it off. That doesn’t sound that interesting but for the most part the camera is the eyes of the girl. YOU wake up barely able to see and manage to make out the zombies eating your insides and the only thing that is going through your head is how indescribable the pain would be. So the sight of that potato masher hanging from one of the zombie’s belt is that stone that will kill two birds, your pain and zombies. Boom!

My dislikes. Other than the normal “why are standing there staring in one direction? Why aren’t you looking around?”, which I would say there isn’t too much of, I say I didn’t like the guy having his eyes pushed in. I don’t like bad things happening to eyes at all. The other thing is really didn’t like was the intestines that could support the weight of one guy and one zombie hanging off a cliff. Nothing else bothered me.

Over all Dead Snow is a better than average B movie with a reasonable storyline, not that one is really required for a zombie film, that works. It doesn’t take it’s self too seriously which is always good when the viewers won’t. The cast was fine, nothing bad to say there.  So if you like a Nazi zombie horror comedy then I’d recommend Dead Snow.