Dod Sno

We again return to the zombie genre with Dod Sno, or to give it it's anglicised name, Dead Snow. This is a movie, that just wins you over with it's premise. I mean, how can you not love Zombie Nazis? Quite obviously, this movie is subtitled so that might be enough to put some people off. it shouldn't though as this movie is a hell of a lot of fun.

We meet the usual Zombie fodder, in some attractive students. They're on their way to a remote cabin up on the Norwegian mountains and whilst there they first meet a camper who warns them of dire consequences if they don't leave. Needless to say they ignore him and get attacked by undead hordes of Schutzstaffel. There's only so many ways someone can get dispatched by a zombie so what's all important is the style in which the deaths are dealt with.In Dod Sno, the emphasis is very much on humour with a nice twist in fast paced scares. My personal favorite is the man who accidentally stabs his girlfriend in the eye with a screwdriver, mistaking her for a Zombie. Or the man who chops his own arm with a chainsaw whilst fighting off the undead, then carries on.

The scenery is beautiful, the characters are believable and likable which is always hard to do with a horror film and the action is fast paced but at the same time there's enough of a gap between scares to allow the tension to build. Unlike some horror films which just relentlessly batter you over the head with shocking imagery and gore, this one treats to some good old fashioned jumps, and a sense of impending doom. My only criticism is, that despite the eminent likeability's of the actors, their characters aren't fleshed out enough and there's no back story for the Einsatzgruppen undead.

That said, this is an imaginative and funny take on the Zombie genre, one which can run stale if not treated well. You just have to look at some of the substandard entrail munching movies out there to see my point. Dod Sno most definitely strike out on it's own and that's something to be thankful for. You'll get your quota of laughs, your quota of jumps and scares and you'll have a whale of a time. If nothing else, how can you not love a movie that has the tag line Ein! Zwei! Die!