Monday, January 19, 2009

Nazi Zombies? I'm In


From the Sundance Film Festival site:
For eight medical students, Easter vacation begins innocently enough. They pack their cars full of ski equipment and enough beer to fuel their escape from everyday life to the snowy, isolated hills outside of Øksfjord, Norway. Once there, they receive a late-night visit from a shady hiker, who tells them a story about Nazi occupation of the area during World War II. After doing their fair share of raping and pillaging, the dreaded battalion faced a brutal and vengeful uprising by the citizens of the town. The soldiers who managed to survive the onslaught, including their dreaded leader Colonel Herzog, were driven into the hills by the angry mob, where they supposedly froze to death, never to be seen again. But if the horror genre has taught us anything, it’s that the raucous behavior and promiscuity of the younger generation always have a way of bringing evil spirits back to life.Director Tommy Wirkola pulls no punches in the carnage department—heads roll, blood flows, and entrails ooze as the young vacationers attempt to make it through the night. Wirkola adeptly utilizes the snow’s eerie and ominous backdrop to its fullest extent while orchestrating this wickedly gory, yet somehow delightful, tale of Nazi zombie terror.
The downside? The film is from Norway.

Watch the trailer for Dead Snow here and decipher what you can ...

5 comments:

Dave said...

The movie poster is enough for me. Looks excellent.

Matt McGee said...

schnell!!! that looks awesome

Joe said...

Great poster! I mean the movie poster, not Jay.

Jay said...

Har har. It looks to be along the lines of the Evil Dead movies in terms of horror fun.

Mike said...

I'm shocked, shocked that this wasn't nominated for a single academy award! Looks like fun anyhow.