Dead Snow (2009)
Directed by Tommy Wirkola
***This film is currently streaming on Netflix***
While Scream was certainly a successful film (if not a completely successful franchise), it started this idea of horror films feeling the need to be self-referential in order to be comedic. Apparently, this new concept doesn't just apply to American films as the German flick Dead Snow falls into this new trap as well. In its attempt to be funny, it fails miserably and it doesn't generate nearly enough thrills with its ludicrous premise to counteract the supposed "comedy."
This is probably the most ridiculous zombie movie I've ever seen. Seven friends are vacationing in the snow-covered mountains in Germany. They soon discover (thanks to one of those ever-present creepy old men who provide exposition and backstory in some horror flicks) that the area was once home to some Nazi soldiers who were forced to leave the town they were inhabiting when the residents had had enough of their politics. The Nazis moved to the mountains and somehow turned into zombies -- zombies that are completely cognizant of their pasts and who maintain their soldier-like demeanor even as the undead. Seriously, if one wasn't told that these guys were zombies, you'd never know...you'd just think they had frostbite and drank some Four Loko which aided in their fast-paced stumbling.
Despite the gushing blood and Monty Python-esque amputations, the film is just ridiculous. And the ending (which I'm going to spoil a bit in the next few lines) just didn't sit well with me at all. Do I really want to watch some heinous Nazi zombies winning the day and killing off all these people? There's something innately wrong about these zombies killing people. It honestly made me really uncomfortable in the end -- not because of the horror, but because it just seemed wrong for the story to play out the way it did.
The RyMickey Rating: D-
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