Dead Snow
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Dead Snow |
| Original title | Død snø |
| Country of production | Norway |
| original language | Norwegian |
| Publishing year | 2009 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Tommy Wirkola |
| script |
Stig Frode Henriksen , Tommy Wirkola |
| production |
Tomas Evjen , Terje Stroemstad |
| music | Christin Wibe |
| camera | Matthew Weston |
| cut | Martin Stoltz |
| occupation | |
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Dead Snow (Original title: Død snø ) is a Norwegian horror - comedy . It is about a group of medical students who have to face undead SS soldiers in a small hut in the mountains . Directed by Tommy Wirkola . The film was released on January 9, 2009 in Norway and was one of the nominees for the Scream Awards in the categories Fight-to-the-Death Scene , Most Memorable Mutilation , Best Foreign Movie and Best Horror Movie that same year . Filming locations were Alta , Finnmark , Målselv and Troms in Norway.
action
At the beginning of the film a woman can be seen fleeing from something unknown. After a change of scene, the actual protagonists of the film, Vegard, Chris, Erlend, Hanna, Martin, Liv and Roy from Øksfjord set off for the Norwegian mountains to spend a short vacation in a remote hut. It turns out that the cabin belongs to Sara, Vegard's friend, and that she is the woman who appeared at the beginning of the film.
Shortly after arriving at the hut, an elderly man appears and asks for coffee. Gruff and unfriendly, he points out to the students a legend according to which undead SS soldiers are said to haunt the area. The young vacationers don't believe him at first and he disappears again. A little later he falls into the hands of the zombies in his tent .
After a vision about his girlfriend, Vegard sets off on his snowmobile the next morning to look for her. He finds the old man's corpse and shortly thereafter breaks through a blanket of snow, lands in an underground tunnel system and loses consciousness. Meanwhile his friends find a treasure under the hut. Without knowing that the zombies are already looking for it, the six want to share the new wealth among themselves. When Erlend loses a piece of the treasure on the way to the outhouse, the zombies are alarmed. Chris, who goes to the outhouse after him, is killed by the zombies. Erlend also dies in their subsequent attack on the hut. The four remaining friends decide that the men in the group should start a diversionary maneuver to enable the two women to escape and get help.
Vegard, who has regained consciousness, finds Nazi paraphernalia and the remains of his girlfriend Sara in the tunnel system . He too gets into a fight with the zombies.
Liv dies trying to escape, while Hanna is able to escape for the time being. Roy and Martin hide in the hut, but the next time the Nazis attack, Roy accidentally sets it on fire, whereupon the two of them flee into the shed . There they discover a chainsaw and other tools. With these they fight their way through a first group of attacking zombies. The returned Vegard eliminated the second wave with a Nazi machine gun . Surprised by more undead, Vegard also dies. In the subsequent fight, Martin also kills his girlfriend Hanna, who suddenly appears behind him. Angry, he takes out the remaining attackers with a pump gun .
One of the zombies manages to bite Martin on the arm, whereupon he amputated his arm himself so as not to become a zombie himself - as is usual in zombie films. However, another zombie immediately bites his genitals . Colonel Herzog, the commander of the undead, appears and, with the command "Stand up!", Summons a large number of zombies. During the escape, Roy is injured in the head by Herzog and impales himself on a tree in a tumult, leaving only Martin alive. He realizes that the Nazis are only after their treasure when he watches as Colonel Herzog pulls a watch out of Roy's trouser pocket and presents it to his followers. He runs back to the burnt down hut, finds the completely intact treasure there and leaves it to the Nazis, who then let it go. Back at the car, Martin drops a coin that one of the girls had secretly slipped him on the floor when he started. When he picks it up, Herzog appears next to him and breaks the window.
additional
- The basic idea of the film corresponds to the Nordic Draugr mythology. In this, undead guard treasures and defend them violently. It is also based on the film Tanz der Teufel , which the protagonists also talk about at the beginning.
- Erlend wears a braindead T-shirt in the hut on the mountain .
- Wirkola announced the film's sequel to Dead Snow: Red vs. Dead . The film was released in Norwegian cinemas in February 2014 and as a direct-to-DVD production in Germany on November 20, 2014 .
Reviews
The film was received very positively by fans of splatter films. Rotten Tomatoes rated the film with 66 percent, which earned it the rating fresh , the Internet Movie Database gave it a user rating of 6.5 / 10.
“ Dead Snow does everything right that he can do right. He doesn't take himself too seriously, offers many moments in which the fan can have a great time and works skillfully with situation comedy and black humor. This, combined with some sympathetic characters, makes Dead Snow , despite the Nazis and zombies, a great and entertaining pleasure that never gets boring and is convincing from start to finish. "
“An attempt at a zombie comedy that knowledgeably quotes relevant role models and wants to expose supposed Nazi mentalities to ridicule. Ultimately nothing more than a drawn out, bloody and superfluous joke. "
“With all the grotesque ideas, all the trashy party humor and the violent final massacre - a little more courage to break the splatter gen conventions would have been good for the fun of Tommy Wirkola (“ Hänsel & Gretel: Witches Hunters ”). [...] Conclusion: Slasher home cooking for the hard-nosed. "
“With Dead Snow , the Norwegian Tommy Wirkola [...] proves himself to be a proven expert in zombie history. In the wild splatter comedy by and for fans there is simply everything that the musty Pappenheimers have to offer: horror, simile and fun. Even if Wirkola rarely goes beyond mere quotes and the film is little more than a genre revue, Dead Snow has an extremely high party factor. "
literature
- Niels Penke: »Get up!« - »Use!« DØD SNØ and the return of the past. In: ders. (Ed.): The Scandinavian horror film. Cultural and aesthetic historical perspectives. Bielefeld: Transcript, 2013, pp. 261–283.
- Sven Jüngerkes / Christiane Wienand: A Past that Refuses to Die: Nazi Zombie Film and the Legacy of Occupation, In: Daniel Magilow, Elizabeth Bridges and Kristin T. Vander Lugt (eds.): Nazisploitation! The Nazi Image in Low-Brow Cinema and Culture, New York: Continuum 2012, pp. 238-257.
Web links
- Dead Snow in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Dead Snow at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- Dead Snow at Metacritic (English)
- Dead Snow in the online movie database
- Dead Snow in the German dubbing file
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Dead Snow . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , August 2009 (PDF; test number: 119 215 V).
- ↑ Website with trailer
- ↑ "Dead Snow 2: Red vs. Dead" Nazis, Zombies, One, Two, DIE!
- ↑ Rotten Tomatoes' review of Dead Snow , accessed April 2, 2012.
- ↑ Critique of the Internet Movie Database on Dead Snow , accessed April 2, 2012.
- ↑ Dead Snow on outnow.ch.
- ↑ Dead Snow. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Dead Snow on cinema.de.
- ↑ Dead Snow on filmstarts.de.