10 Alternative Christmas Movies
8. Dead Snow
Okay, so Dead Snow actually takes place during Easter, but there’s rubbish weather, lots of drinking and Nazi zombies, so it perfectly sums up the festive season.
When a Mysterious Stranger warns our heroes of an evil presence in the mountains where Nazi soldiers froze to death during WWII, the stage is set for a zombie movie unlike any other. Wearing its influences on its sleeve (one character wears a Braindead t-shirt), Dead Snow borrows liberally from The Evil Dead and even recycles the hand-through-the-window gag seen in every 80s Italian zombie movie, but that’s not to say that Tommy Wirkola’s movie is lacking in imagination.
When limbs aren’t being hacked off with chainsaws and characters aren’t swinging to safety on zombie intestines, the film asks important questions like “If a Nazi zombie bites you, and you’re half-Jewish, are you immune? Or should you amputate the limb just in case? If so, what happens if you get bit again?”
Played with its tongue very firmly in its cheek, this could be the greatest Nazi zombie film of all time.