The US premiere ofDead Snow(Død Snø ) is decently around the corner at Sundance , but it ’s already premier in Norway , and our io9 pressman Bjørn was there .
First off , who recognize that Dead Snow’sNazi zombies were also good at peddling products ? turn back out this commercial message for hot cocoa – undead - Nazi approved !
In other intelligence , we call on trusty io9er Bjørn T. Bøe , to fill us in on whetherDead Snow is deserving the icy trek to Utah just to check out the new zombies . The film has been out in Norway for a wee bit longer , and Bjørn gives it two frostbitten quarter round up . Plus Modern exposure below !
Bjørn T. Bøe pronounce :
Død Snø start off like any other in a foresighted line of late Norwegian teen - scream slasher flicks : A duet and their respective trios of gender - famish dependable friends are en route to a remote cabin for a cozy retirement . Seen that film before ? Me too . That ’s why I was ab initio let down as I sat attending a private screening of the film . grant , these fiber were not teenagers , but still . But as it plough out , this opening was a sham ; the moving picture makers made an obvious nod to that well - make out trope , partially to cement Død Snø as a comedy by pushing for the obvious , and partially because , well , the premise really work with the patch that unfolds .
Yes , Død Snø is a funniness . You should screw this before you enter the theatre at Sundance . However , it is also an highly graphical splatter picture , of the old school ( none of that Hostel or Saw bull ) . I hate the standard Hollywood pitches , like “ choke Hard meet Star Trek ” ( although I ’d love to see that finical concept ) , but there is no escaping the fact that Død Snø borrows heavy from motion-picture show like Evil Dead 1 and 2 , Dead Alive , Surf Nazis Must Die , and even Pirates of the Caribbean . The latter in the form of a revealing MacGuffin ( but I ’ve already said too much – I want to keep this review pamperer - devoid beyond the clips you ’ve already find out here on io9 ) . But it is by no means a straight rive - off deal ; the film gingerly tips its hat at those herald ( well , apart from Pirates ) , both in the form of pretty obvious scene references , but also in the form of literal name - dropping , and the fact that film geek case Erlend ( Jeppe Laursen ) actually wears a Dead Alive ! ( called Braindead hereabouts ) thyroxine - shirt during the initial snake god attack .
However , Død Snø is much more than a mere line - up of homages . It ’s something as original as a Norwegian monster motion picture , made for a mainstream audience . This one ’s a first , and despite its tiny budget of just under two million US dollar mark , it manages to come across just as tatty and eye - candy - ilk as anything else – it certainly has a output economic value vastly exceed those motion-picture show it draws upon . Pulling on Australian cameraman Matt Weston ’s center for exciting solvent , Død Snø do across as part horror movie , part extreme sport video – and this is certainly a undecomposed matter .
With the kind of scene wünderkind writer / director Tommy Wirkola has create , it would have been a disaster not to germinate some of the more usurious scenes the elbow room Weston did – and he makes it look damn expert . The cinematography , the good design , the particular effects and the make - up have all been hard lauded by a surprisingly link up national press – to the point where certain reviewers have stated that it might not be their cup of tea , but bloody , it seem good .
Suffice to say , this is a invaluable jewel you ’ll believably not want to miss if you could get a screening of it . It will undoubtedly be uncommitted on DVD one way or the other , and I really hope you will be capable to see it – this is one piece of my cultural heritage I ’d really like to divvy up .
Oh , and sorry , but this is a run - zombie film . But I conceive you ’d agree with me that although the managing director decidedly refer to the creatures as zombies , I ’d categorize them as something else . Or maybe I ’ve just owned too many editions of the Monster Manual , I do n’t know .
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