10 Terrifying War Horror Movies You Need To See
6. Dead Snow
This Norwegian horror comedy wrings laughs out of its outlandish premise but, as with the genre classic Evil Dead II, it still finds a way to be utterly terrifying.
It’s an enjoyably daft premise; a group of eight medical students off on an Easter ski weekend in the Arctic mountains come face-to-face with a battalion of zombified Nazi soldiers out for blood.
The real skill comes in the writing and direction of Tommy Wirkola, who went on to make the underrated Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters starring Jeremy Renner and Gemma Arterton.
Wirkola takes the time to establish a core group of characters before setting out the lore of the film via a surprise visit from a mysterious local resident, who regales the group with the tale of a Nazi battalion who disappeared in a nearby woods while trying to evade Allied forces.
Once the Nazi zombies do arrives, courtesy of an ill-timed avalanche, they waste little time in tearing the tightly bonded group apart – quite literally, in places. Made on a tight budget, Dead Snow defies its lo-fi status with a string of inventive and increasingly bloody deaths.
It makes for that most rare of cinematic beasts: a horror comedy that is both scary and funny.