Dead though rebalances the horror, and while at its heart it is still very much in line with the original vision (including the obsession with intestines) the film feels more mature and better put together making it a more entertaining experience.įunny, entertaining and full of exquisite undead gore Dead Snow 2: Red vs. No matter how much I like the original there are times that it was just a little too “Carry On Zombie” for me. Dead work for me is that it is a much better film than Dead Snow. Starvarin feels like an unstoppable force, and a game changer, Mears is really put to good use on-screen and feels like he adds a much-needed counterbalance to Herzog (even if Martin is arguably meant to be the hero of the film, and is). In bringing in Derek Mears to play the part of Starvarin, the nemesis to the Nazi general this not only brings a smile to horror geek faces, but also brings an extra element of destruction to the action. Deaddoes this in many ways, especially in bringing in a zombie force to do battle with the Herzog and his soldiers (and their tank). Fans of horror want the limits of taste to be exceeded sometimes, playing it safe can often just become dull.Ī good sequel looks to raise the bar and to exceed what the previous movie managed to achieve. There is an element of offensiveness to some of the violence we see, but if you are going to be easily offended then maybe the horror genre isn’t really for you. Of course the atrocities of real life do create a certain uneasiness to the violence on-screen, but we do have to remove the zombie Nazi from the realm of reality somewhat and remember they are fictional undead monsters (and never seen or portrayed in a positive light). Dead takes the more fun approach of creating an army that has a history of being a force of destruction in life, and now in death they bring only death and destruction. The zombie is a creature that can easily be used for comedy, though with the popularity of The Walking Dead we like to think of them more as the oncoming unstoppable horde of dead bodies with gnashing teeth who turn up for a few minutes of action after way too much survivor angst. The answer to just how to do this may lie underneath the ice in the form of a troop of Russian Soldiers ready to take their revenge. With the aid of a geekish group of American zombie hunters and the ability to reanimate the dead, Martin must do battle with Herzog and his troops. Realising to his horror that this is the zombified arm of General Herzog (Ørjan Gamst) it’s not long before Martin realises the Nazi zombies are once again on the march and hunting him and the arm down. Dead (Død snø 2), the sequel has one thing to do, and that is to surpass the original which would be no easy task.Ĭontinuing where the first left off, the only survivor from the original Martin (Vegar Hoel) wakes up in a hospital not only alive, but now with an arm attached to the stump where he removed the original with a chainsaw. As a fan of Peter Jackson’s Braindead (Dead/Alive) the Norwegian tale of Nazi Zombies in an Evil Dead type setting had me reminiscing about just how good Jackson’s more indie style of horror was (before he got lost in middle-earth). In many ways the original Dead Snow brought something back to the zombie genre that was missing, not only fun but also slapstick comedy.
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