dead snow

You know I really wanted to enjoy this more than I did.

Zombie nazis killing a bunch of kids in a remote, snow-bound cabin?  What's not to love?

The problem is it doesn't really make a lot of sense.  I know - it's a daft criticism, isn't it?  I mean, it's a film about nazi zombies, right?  It coudln't possibly make any sense.

Well, no, but there's such a thing as internal logic.  Okay, there's no such thing as zombies, but if you're goign to have zombies you need to be consistent about what they are, what they do, how they behave, etc.  But there isn't here - most of the zombies seem pretty mindless, but one fo them is made out to be a leader of sorts - well, why is he still vaguely clever and the others aren't?

And if he is meant to be vaguely clever, why is his only motivation to do with some small amount of gold?  Gold that it's not clear how it got to be anywhere other than where the zombies left it.

There are loads of other problems too.  One f the main ones is a random old bloke who turns up basically in order to tell the youngsters the plot.  Quite why he randomly seems to have walked dozens of miles (his tent, which is in the middle of nowhere, even though it's implied he's a local, is shown to be the best part of half a day's snow mobile ride away) just to scare the piss out of these kids with a weird story is never at all clear.

Especially sicne he then gets bumped off in a way that's utterly inconsistent with what we're supposed to believe is the motivation for the zombies.

The effects are generally quite good.  There's a hell of a lot of killing and blood and severed body parts.

There's also some nice stabs at humour in an evil dead sort of veign.

But there are problems here too - everythign is derivative or unorigianl.  IT's like there's a bit where a guy chops his own arm off... like a cross between Evil Dead (chainsaws and arms) and Braindead (infected arm cut off).  Except it's utterly daft that he seems to think this will work.  Plus, it's not like it's quick - it takes ages.  And all through it the zombies apparantly stand aroudn watching him.

You see what I mean?  It's lack of any sense is so blatent that it ruins what should be the bits that make up for the stupid plot.  And it's so derivative that you just feel leik you've seen it all before.

Shame, it coudl have been so much better with little to no changes.

There were quite a lot of extras - some of which were quite entertaining.  In particular the fact the crew seems to rise up in a proto-communist, trade union kind of thing was quite amusing.