Upstart Norwegian filmmaker Tommy Wirkola goes for gory glory in a Nazi zombie slasher pic that steals liberally from the Sam Raimi cannon of horror.
Trouble comes when a group of medical students go for a snowmobile vacation in a remote mountain cabin that happens to be located on the grave site of hundreds of Nazi soldiers waiting for an opportunity to awaken and take back the gold trinkets they stole from local villagers more than a half century ago.
There’s plenty of toilet humor and gross-out visuals as our doomed group of victims do battle with an unending stream of zombies whose, make-up is the best thing in the movie.
For young gore-hungry audiences who haven’t seen “The Evil Dead” (one and two), “Dead Snow” could work as a stomach-churning thrill ride.
More experienced viewers are better off sticking with a master of the genre like Sam Raimi, whose “Drag Me to Hell” achieves everything the “Dead Snow” filmmakers attempted to do, and more.
Rated R. 90 mins.
