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 swe...

Dead Snow / Død snø (2009): 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, original name Død snø (2009) is a zombie movie, this time set in a snow covered resort. A group of medical students on a ski vacation discover Nazi loot, which causes Nazi zombies led by Oberst Herzog (Ørjan Gamst) to come after them and kill them for the treasure. The movie has a nice sense of humour to it, including a couple characters hanging from a cliff by something that isn’t rope, and a crow giving away a student’s location. Plenty of humorous gore. Herzog is most likely named after influential German director Werner Herzog and is a memorable villain, uttering commands in a zombie language. One suggestion that a character ...

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: Salvage is the story of a young woman named Claire (Lauren Currie Lewis) who keeps being murdered over and over by the same guy (Duke, played by Chris Farey), who himself is prone to being shot to death by the police. She keeps on trying to find out why this is happening to her. Everyone around her is acting strange, including her boyfriend (Jimmy, played by Cody Darbe) who sometimes tags along but has a strange smile suggesting he's letting more than he's letting on. While a low budget movie, it is well acted, and critically Lewis in the lead role is the stand-out performance. She is in nearly every scene and holds the audience's attention. While I could not figure out what was really happening until it was reveal...