There were a few reactions, however, that I had that definitely differed from yours. To me, the gags were aimed at an audience other than myself because while I realized that the director was going for laughs with bits like the crotch bite, I only found myself smiling slightly with mild amusement. I also didn’t mind the med students as protagonists; for the most part, they didn’t run towards every footstep that they heard like many horror movie victims tend to. I forgave Tommy W for including the grizzled drifter as the standard old/crazy guy who warns everybody of the impending doom, but I couldn’t accept his being so idiotic as to not heed his own advice. What was also a nice touch was that the zombies came out in broad daylight. I don’t know if that was Tommy W trying to keep his filming costs down, but I quite liked that the story wasn’t confined to after sundown.

I also thought it was great that the director was able to capture the scenic snowscapes so beautifully. If anything, the movie would make for a great ad for the Norwegian Department of Tourism (well, they would probably have to take out the bits with the Nazi zombies).

My guess is that a Hollywood remake will be inevitable. While I didn’t think ‘Dead Snow’ was a bad movie, I do hope that whoever helms the remake will aim higher and play with horror conventions much more than Tommy W did.

Cheers,

GMB

All that said, I loved Dead Snow. I didn’t know about it – I prefer to find my horror tips on sites like yours (great job, btw). I saw Dead Snow posted here and ‘Nazi zombies’ pretty much told me I should watch it. To be fair, this could have been much worse. The execution of the humour is excellent, especially since it didn’t lift jokes from other horror comedies like Evil Dead and Dead Alive. I thought the Molotov and crotch jokes were great, not to mention the girl in the tree. The make-up and effects were brilliant and the whole movie well executed. It was certainly well above cliches like Land of the Dead.

I am looking forward to checking this one out – I am sorry to hear that it wasn’t as great as it could have been, but it still sounds enjoyable!

And it’s about time someone copied The Fog. That movie is awesome!

There are also many sceens found within that show much promise from the director and dp in the future. I particularly liked the scenes when the big-bad zombie and all his minion nazi-zombies cornering our last-boy in the burnt-pit. This shot, and many like it, is framed beautifully with great artistry. I also enjoyed the constrasts between the bright (and I mean bright) red blood against the brilliant white snow. There’s also a bit of irony and pathos when the last-girl meets her end after surviving unbelievable encounters with zombie after zombie. I won’t spoil it here. While the set up is indeed overlong, your patience will be rewarded once the zombies begin to rise thru the frozen tundra.

Dead Snow rules!