Død snø was a great surprise and a great pleasure to me. The second movie got for sure the bigger production but besides that I prefer the first one - I felt more connected to the characters and the gore and humor was more on the point. Død snø 2 is still good but offering more of everything does not automatically make a movie the better one. A solid piece for the lover of zombie mayhem, but maybe a little bit disappointing too - especially because the 2nd movie is all in all more a horror comedy, whereas the first one got some humor too but felt more like a "real" horror movie.

I personally thought the first one was better. This one tried and I appreciate the effort that is put into this. But it just felt way too drawn out and the over the top moments seemed more silly than it actually being cool. There is no suspense or anything all that cool really, even if it has over the top blood and gore scenes. While the zombies were actually kind of intimidating and creepy in the first one it, just isn't the case here. I thought some ideas that are dumb and clever at the same time sort of worked, even if it doesn't make much sense if you think about it. Yeah, they created a new genre of zombies, but that doesn't make it particularly good or anything. So the zombies knows how to talk, communicate, fist fight, use weapons and be able to run. And the head of the zombie pack can resurrect the dead, without much explanation. The first "Dead Snow" was a survival movie...Well sort of. This one is a zombie brawl, it's somewhat entertaining for a while but it loses it's flavor quickly. I give this flick a 6.3/10 because of the effort, even if some parts of it seemed quite pointless.

6.3/10

I had time to catch up with fan favourite DEAD SNOW 2: RED VS DEAD (2014),a Norwegian comedy horror sequel that marks a step up from its predecessor thanks to a bigger budget and more involved plot. This one sees the prior movie's soul survivor, Martin, hunted by local cops for a murder spree while at the same time joining forces with a trio of American zombie hunters to tackle the marauding Nazi zombies. How they do so gives the film its subtitle, and it's a clever, nicely perceived idea.

The rest is pretty much par for the course for this genre. There's oodles of gore including the director's obsession with the intestinal tract, and some lowbrow humour added to the mix. Lots of action to take your mind off the sometimes weak writing, and the lavish, battle-oriented climax works a treat. The jokes are scattershot at times and occasionally puerile, but generally this has enough blood and momentum to work and prove above average by genre standards.