Leonard Maltin loved DEAD SNOW 2! Normally I would run from a movie about Nazi zombies that promises a great deal of graphic gore. As it happens, I was obliged to watch Dead Snow 2 as part of my jury duty at Fantastic Fest—and thought it was terrific. I didn’t see its 2009 predecessor, but I can tell you that instead of the one-joke movie I anticipated, director Tommy Wirkola and his co-writers (Stig Frode Henriksen and leading man Vegar Hoel) deliver a wickedly clever screenplay that never runs out of fresh, funny ideas. Their characters meet the grisliest fates, and the camera doesn’t spare any details, but the results are so extreme that they inspire shock and laughter at the same time.
Posted on: Sun, 12 Oct 2014 04:00:00 +0000