Here is the best premise for a film: some medical students go to a cabin in the snowy mountains of Norway but then all get killed by Nazi zombies. Last weekend I sought out a movie that would fit this description and saw it. Dead Snow, or Død snø, gets my wholehearted recommendation to anyone who can either comprehend Norwegian or is okay with reading subtitles or likes movies. It surpasses all other Nazi and zombie movies I have seen in 2009 so far. But is it just another Norwegian horror film? No. It is writer/director Tommy Wirkola’s cinematic epiphany explaining that all people really want to see is another human’s face ripped open and brain flung on the snow by two post-mortem anti-Semites. It makes you appreciate how easy your life is. Ultimately the reason behind the Nazi zombie occupation of Øksfjord, Norway makes no sense but details aren’t ever what matters. The crux of the movie lies in the political and bloodthirsty message of psycho-lust and avarice delivered by the antagonists—the Nazi zombies themselves. I’m not going to ruin the ending but SPOILERS I am: You will leave the theater feeling quite uncertain about the possibly intentional irony that in the end all the Nazis really wanted was their gold! It makes a lot of sense.
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