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#328 Dead Snow 2 Red vs. Dead - Tommy Wirkola 2014

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CALIFICACIÓN PERSONAL: 6.5 / 10

Título Original:   Død Snø 2 AKA Dead Snow 2: Red vs. Dead

Año: 2014

Duración: 100 min

País:   Noruega  

Director:   Tommy Wirkola

Guion: Tommy Wirkola, Stig Frode Henriksen, Vegar Hoel   

Música:  Christian Wibe  

Fotografía:  Matthew Weston  

Reparto: Vegar Hoel, Ørjan Gamst, Martin Starr, Jocelyn DeBoer, Ingrid Haas, Stig Frode Henriksen, Hallvard Holmen, Kristoffer Joner, Amrita Acharia, Derek Mears, Bjarte Tjøstheim, Christian Rubeck, Charlotte Frogner, Jesper Sundnes, Tage Guddingsmo, David Skaufjord

Productora:   Euforia Film, Barentsfilm AS, FilmCamp, Miho Film, Yellow Bastard Production, Zwart Arbeid  

Género: Comedy, Horror, Fantasy

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2832470/

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Dead Snow 2: Red vs Dead (2014)

Directed by Tommy Wirkola Written by Tommy Wirkola, Stig Frode Henriksen and Vegar Hoel Music by Christian Wibe Country: Iceland/Norway Language: English Running Time: 101 minutes

CAST

Vegar Hoel as Martin Hykkerud

Ørjan Gamst as Standartenführer (Oberst) Herzog

Martin Starr as Daniel

Jocelyn DeBoer as Monica

Ingrid Haas as Blake

Stig Frode Henriksen as Glenn Kenneth

Hallvard Holmen as Gunga

Kristoffer Joner as Sidekick Zombie

Amrita Acharia as Reidun

Derek Mears as Stavarin

Bjarte Tjøstheim as Priest

Christian Rubeck as Policeman

Charlotte Frogner as Hanna

Jesper Sundnes as Nazi Doctor

Tage Guddingsmo as Zombie Navigator

David Skaufjord as Zombie Tank Driver

Daniel Berge Halvorsen as Major Stubbe

Guðmundur Ólafsson as Elderly Woman

Ingar Helge Gimle as Doctor Brochman

Carl-Magnus Adner as Bobby, a boy who can’t fly

(Stealing be stealing Dept: Images from IMDB as I’m not always in a screengrabby position.)

This more expensive, longer, and even sillier sequel to Dead Snow (2009) picks up right where the silly-ass splatter original left off; perfect for a Natchos and Mountain Dew fuelled double bill, teenagers of all ages will be cock-a-hoop to know. Less of a horror movie this time out and more a succession of gleefully violent set pieces punctuated by terrible/awesome (delete according to age) jokes; the majority of which seem to revolve around the lame and the halt, which I guess is “edgy”. The 12 year old in the room (not a metaphor; there was literally a 12 year old boy in the room; don’t call the police, I’m his dad)  thought it was all chucklesome stuff, while I found it a bit hit and miss; most of it missed but that’s because I’m nearly 50, and the bits that did hit were bang on my funny bone (e.g. the woman pushing a wheelchair gag). It’s not all puke and piss poor “head” puns though. Some of the jokes try a bit harder and land a bit better.

Following an impossible operation there’s some fine physical comedy from Vegar Hoel, clearly in the same vein of Bruce Campbell in Evil Dead 2 (1988) , which is nicely done even if it never reaches Campbell’s towering Loony Tunes heights. A puppishly devoted zombie tourist becomes ever more damaged but never loses its ardour for its master. Fans of the first movie will be pleased to hear that the antics involving intestines continue and, indeed, peak with a bizarre tank refuelling gag. There’s even a nice Titanic (who cares what year; ugh) visual shout-out during the movie’s climactic spell of necrophilia. (It’s okay; it’s consensual necrophilia.) There’s a bunch of cops who do some slapstick and surreal conversation shtick.  Basically some of it isn’t funny, some of it is very funny, some of it is cruel, some of it is childish, some of it is clever, but mostly it’s a sloppy smorgasbord of some of those things all at the same time. It’s rarely dull, and critics who get a bit pearl clutchy should bear in mind that John Steinbeck wasn’t above a bit of goofy schlocky horror (“Cannery Row”; the bit with the kid going fishing with the mystery liver).

Plotwise the movie goes way wider than the original. After hurriedly telling us the Nazi zombies liveliness is the result of the kids finding the treasure in the first movie (which makes no sense as the undead were already marauding about; but, whatever), the movie decides to have undead Nazi leader Herzog magically compelled to finish the mission interrupted by his wartime “death”: the destruction of the town of Talvik (I think? I wasn’t taking notes). To stop Herzog Martin (Hoel) teams up with a very camp WW2 museum curator (Stig Frode Henriksen), the US Zombie Squad, who are a ridiculously attractive trio of “nerds” (most obviously there so the US audience doesn’t start crying because none of it is set in America), and a luckless but loyal zombie sidekick. It quickly becomes apparent that the resurrection of a bunch of Russian WW2 POWS might do the trick. (Which is where the “red” comes in.) Things get messy fast.

Dead Snow 2 keeps lumbering along with just enough momentum, scattershot humour and goofy inventiveness  to stop it becoming stuck in a rut of people in shabby hallowe’en costumes grappling in fields. Was it better than Dead Snow, though? I asked a 12 year old expert and he said they were “different, but both good.” And a child shall lead us, yea verily, and all that jazz.

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Dead Snow: Red vs. Dead (2014) – Zombie War Scene (8/10) | Movieclips Dead Snow: Red vs. Dead - Zombie War: Martin (Vegar Hoel) and the Zombie Squad watch as Herzog (Ørjan Gamst) delivers a devastating blow.

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