Dead Snow 2: Red vs. Dead / Død snø 2 (2014): You Must See This Movie



All posts in this blog are intended to highlight movies (either really good or really bad) that run the risk of being overlooked by the public. Great movies that are well known to the general public need not apply.

The following movie is in the Good category:

The Norwegian movie Dead Snow 2: Red vs. Dead, original name Død snø 2 (2014) follows a survivor from the first movie (whom I won’t identify so as not to reveal which of the students live or die in the first one), as he pursues the Nazi zombies, still led by Herzog (again played by Ørjan Gamst) as they now try to raid a Russian village. He now has the ability to create zombies of his own and he is aided by three geekie American youth who call themselves the Zombie Squad.

Dead Snow 2 is one of those rare movies where the sequel is even better than the original. The humour is even more twisted, even more a sense of nothing being sacred. One zombie who acts as the main sidekick to the group of zombie fighters has a sweet and gentle nature even as he endures all kinds of fatal wounds throughout the zombie. Despite all kinds of quirky humour mayhem (including a caregiver abandoning person in a wheelchair while fleeing the zombies) there is still a sense of gravitas to the scenes where the survivor and Herzog square off. And the final scene before the end credits (there is a post-credit scene) is simultaneously touching and completely demented. This is one of the greatest zombie movies ever made, funnier even than Shaun of the Dead and other great zombie comedies. It is also one of the best part twos of any movie franchise. If you like your gore mixed with twisted humour, you will probably love this movie. You must see this movie.

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