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Dancing_P [ 6.0 ]
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The premise of zombie Nazis is almost too good. I mean, it goes without saying that there's little that hasn't been done in the way of goofy horror movies since Evil Dead - yet this film had the potential to, if not revolutionize anything, certainly make things a little more... Unfortunately, one is soon faced with the inevitable realization that zombie Nazis are not terribly different from regular zombies and thus, a zombie Nazi movie ends up being not terribly different from a regular zombie movie.
Paying broad homage to Saint Raimi, this Norwegian splatterfest follows a group of young medical students as they head to the mountains for a weekend of skiing and fucking and doing whatever the hell it is young people in horror movies never get around to doing. In the mountains they find a box full of gold that they decide to keep for themselves (bad move), causing an army of pissed off Nazis to come out of the ground and start taking names.
It starts off pretty slow, with the typical movie-geek character awkwardly comparing it to the beloved 80's films it is aping. The characters aren't particularly well-sketched out or likeable (not exactly a first in this genre) but the film takes too long to get going. Once it does, however, it's a decently zippy little horror-comedy. Like too many of them, it's predicated on half-a-dozen really good jokes/ideas/kills, leaving the rest of the movie for familiar slice-and-dice scenarios. It's in Norwegian, so there's that, but it doesn't exactly tread new ground.
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chapter11 [ 7.5 ]
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Right, i mean, the idea of Nazi zombies is almost a bit too great in theory to actually work on paper - and there's a long stretch of movie here where it seems like the flick's simply not cashing in on its awesome premise. Sure, the indistinguishable leads have chemistry, and there's a lot of snappy dialogue (a rapport that works across all languages), but that's all it is for a spell. Fortunately, once the carnage kicks in, it spends about 40 minutes being the most badass movie ever, building to a climax that simply has to be seen to be appreciated. Well worth a watch for genre fans - good, old fashioned, exploitive, gruesome fun.
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DokBrowne [ 7.5 ]
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Nazi zombies in the snowy mountains + not taking itself seriously + tons of blood (love how splattered the survivors' faces become) + great cinematography = genre gold. We're an easy lot to please.
Movie could use more energy (the zombies just stand around and wait for the good guys to defeat them), maybe a memorable character or two (you root for the protagonists but they're indistinguishable, and one who transforms into a badass hero doesn't last long enough), but it's good stuff. Just seeing the emaciated zombies dressed up in SS gear marching through the snow should cement this as some level of classic, but it's also legitimately funny in parts - the punchline to an amputation scene is awesome.
Much better than its lukewarm reputation suggests
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| Weighted Rating | : 6.7 |
| No. Ratings | : 4 | |
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