10 Snowbound Horror Movies For Christmas

By 2009, there were enough horror movies about characters that go to an isolated cabin with no phone signal so Norwegian director Tommy Wirkola decided to shake the genre up a bit.

The result was Dead Snow, an outrageous zombie comedy that boasted one of the all-time great taglines: “Ein! Zwei! Die!” It’s your typical story about a bunch of horror movie caricatures who encounter undead Nazi soldiers in the mountains (where they froze to death during WWII), but just because Dead Snow borrows liberally from The Evil Dead and recycles the hand-through-the-window gag seen in every 80s Italian zombie movie doesn’t mean it’s 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?”