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Dead Snow 2: Red vs. Dead

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Dead Snow 2: Red vs. Dead (Norwegian: Død snø 2) is a 2014 action comedy horror film directed by Tommy Wirkola. It is a sequel to Wirkola's 2009 film Dead Snow. The film was released in Norway on 12 February and in the United States on 10 October 2014. Vegar Hoel reprises his role from the first film as Martin, the sole survivor of an attack by Nazi zombies led by the evil Herzog (Ørjan Gamst). Filming took place in Iceland.

Dead Snow 2: Red vs. Dead
Theatrical release poster
NorwegianDød snø 2
Directed byTommy Wirkola
Written by
Based onDead Snow
by Tommy Wirkola
Produced by
  • Terje Strømstad
  • Kjetil Omberg
Starring
CinematographyMatthew Weston
Edited byMartin Stoltz
Music byChristian Wibe
Production
companies
  • Sagafilm
  • Tappeluft Pictures
  • The Fyzz Facility
  • XYZ Films
Distributed by
  • Nordisk Filmdistribusjon (Norway)
  • Sena (Iceland)
Release dates
  • 19 January 2014 (2014-01-19) (Sundance)
  • 12 February 2014 (2014-02-12) (Norway)
Running time
101 minutes
Countries
  • Iceland
  • Norway[1]
Languages
  • English
  • Norwegian
Box office$1.2 million[2]

Plot edit

Previously, Martin and his friends draw the ire of Nazi zombies after unwittingly taking the gold they are after. When Martin is bitten on the arm, he removes the infected arm with a chainsaw. After returning their gold to the Nazi zombies, Martin realizes he forgot a coin. The zombies chase after him, and their commander, Herzog, tenaciously holds on to Martin's car as he flees. An oncoming truck slices off Herzog's arm, which remains in the car with Martin.

After Martin passes out at the wheel and is involved in an accident, he wakes up in a hospital. The police disbelieve his wild stories about zombies and charge him with the murder of his friends. To his horror, Martin finds that a surgeon has attached Herzog's arm to his stump (believing it to be Martin's). The zombie arm goes berserk and attacks everyone within reach. After Martin kills several people against his will, he is sedated and strapped tightly to the bed. In the meantime, Herzog has his lost arm replaced and begins to conscript more zombie troops by resurrecting freshly killed locals.

Bobby, a young American tourist, sneaks into Martin's room when he hears rumors of a zombie attack. Impressed with Martin's zombie arm, Bobby frees Martin and tells him about the Zombie Squad, American professional zombie hunters. Before Bobby can contact them, the zombie arm throws Bobby out a window. Panicked, Martin follows and administers CPR, but the zombie arm instead crushes Bobby's chest, killing him. Martin flees the police, who believe him to be a child killer, and makes contact with the Zombie Squad - who turn out to be three nerdy friends: Daniel, Monica, and Blake - who promise to come to Norway and assist. In the meantime, they ask Martin to find out what Herzog wants.

At a World War II museum, Martin meets Glenn Kenneth, the souvenir shop's clerk. After the zombie arm intimidates him, Glenn takes Martin to the museum, where they read about Herzog's history: Herzog was originally tasked by Hitler himself to wipe out Talvik for their anti-Nazi sabotage. As Martin realizes Herzog intends to carry out his orders, Herzog and his Nazi zombies attack a group of tourists outside, and following the slaughter, Herzog has his troops arm themselves with old weapons from the museum, including a World War II-era Tiger tank. Martin and Glenn escape death by pretending to be mannequins in the museum. While surveying the carnage, Martin accidentally discovers that his zombie arm can also raise and control the dead. When Daniel arrives, he kills the zombie Martin has resurrected; Martin demonstrates his newfound power by raising it again.

Martin, Daniel, and the sidekick zombie race to find the burial ground of a group of Russian Red Army POWs, who had been executed by Herzog during the war, as Monica, Blake, and Glenn work to slow down Herzog. Monica and Blake convince Glenn to act as bait to draw some of the zombies into a local swamp, where they kill them with pipe bombs they made from the supplies they had. After shooting at them with the tank gun several times, Herzog continues on his way, believing Blake, Glenn and Monica to be dead. Meanwhile, the others discover the graveyard, and Martin raises an entire troop of loyal Russian zombies. All converge at the town, where Martin confronts Herzog. Martin points out that they have evacuated the townspeople and thus prevented Herzog from completing his orders, but Herzog does not care and attacks them.

The battle goes well at first, but the Nazi zombies eventually overpower Martin's Russian zombies after Herzog kills the Russian commander, Lieutenant Stavarin. As the Nazi zombies close in on them, Monica tells Martin to kill Herzog, as it is their only chance. Daniel attempts to take control of the Nazi zombie's tank, Martin directly confronts Herzog, and the others fight Herzog's remaining zombies. Glenn is killed by a sneaky knife attack to the throat by a Nazi zombie, and Monica and Blake are about to be overwhelmed when Daniel fires the tank gun directly at Herzog while Martin keeps him distracted. Herzog is decapitated, and the head goes far off into the further away mountains; his troops fall lifelessly to the ground, saving Monica and Blake.

After they have celebrated, and having been exonerated from the murder charges as the police witnessed the zombie battle, Martin drives to the church where Hanna (his girlfriend who died during the first film) is buried, digs up her corpse, and brings her back as a zombie. The two proceed to make out and have sex as the sidekick zombie looks on in the distance.

In a post-credits scene, the Nazi doctor recovers Herzog's severed head, which opens its eyes.

Cast edit

Production edit

Dead Snow 2: Red vs Dead was shot in both English and Norwegian at the same time.[3] Filming took place in Iceland. Many of the zombies were professional mixed martial arts fighters, and Wirkola found it easy to direct them, as they were willing to perform showy stunts.[4]

Release edit

Dead Snow 2: Red vs. Dead had its world premiere at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival on 19 January 2014[5] before being released in its home country of Norway on 12 February.[citation needed] The film screened at the 2014 Stanley Film Festival on 25 April.[citation needed] It was released online on 7 October before receiving a limited theatrical release in the US on 10 October.[6] Well Go USA released the film on home video on 9 December in the US,[7] and Entertainment One released the DVD and Blu-ray on 12 January 2015 in the United Kingdom.[8]

Critical reception edit

Rotten Tomatoes, a review aggregator, reports that 81% of 32 surveyed critics gave the film a positive review; the average rating is 6.6/10. The website's critical consensus reads: "Dead Snow 2: Red vs. Dead expands the original's canvas without sacrificing any of its bloody fun, adding up to a sequel that fans of the first are bound to enjoy".[9] On Metacritic, the film has a 59/100 rating based on 10 reviews, signifying "mixed or average reviews".[10]

Dennis Harvey of Variety criticized the film's Troma-style tone and described the addition of the American characters as pandering to international audiences.[11] Boyd van Hoeij of The Hollywood Reporter summed up the film as "cartoon violence and action, gore and humor, all rolled into one schlocky but enjoyable package".[12] Jeannette Catsoulis of The New York Times wrote, "...if the movie's hilariously cruel treatment of the halt and the lame upsets you, you can enjoy the crisp cinematography, operatically repulsive effects and frequently witty dialogue".[13] Robert Abele of the Los Angeles Times wrote: "As bad-taste splatter comedies go, Dead Snow 2 is one of the more charitably nutty ones, less about gorging on gore than reveling in how silly the whole genre can be".[14] Clark Collis of Entertainment Weekly rated it B and called it "dementedly enjoyable".[15]

Ryan Daley of Bloody Disgusting rated it 4/5 stars and called the film "a textbook example of a talented director using extreme violence as a cathartic safety valve".[16] Brad McHargue of Dread Central rated it 4/5 stars and wrote, "Dead Snow 2 is an utterly silly film that revels in its absurdity, and that’s why it works".[17]

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ "Dead Snow 2: Red vs. Dead (Død Snø 2)". Norwegian Film Institute. from the original on 9 September 2019. Retrieved 9 September 2019.
  2. ^ "Dead Snow 2: Red vs. Dead". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 16 January 2015.
  3. ^ Thorkildsen, Joakim (16 September 2014). "At det er litt norsk aksent gjør ingenting". Dagbladet. Retrieved 1 September 2015.
  4. ^ Buckley, Heather (17 October 2014). "Exclusive: Tommy Wirkola Talks Dead Snow 2: Red vs. Dead". Dread Central. Retrieved 1 September 2015.
  5. ^ Indiewire (10 January 2014). "Sundance 2014: Park City at Midnight". IndieWire. Penske Business Media. Retrieved 18 January 2014.
  6. ^ "Dead Snow 2: Red vs Dead". IGN. Ziff Davis. Retrieved 1 September 2015.
  7. ^ Barton, Steve (14 October 2014). "Dead Snow 2: Red vs. Dead Marches on Blu-ray and DVD". Dread Central. Dread Central Media. Retrieved 1 September 2015.
  8. ^ Jones, Gareth (24 December 2014). "UK Readers: Win Dead Snow 2: Red vs. Dead on Blu-ray!". Dread Central. Dread Central Media. Retrieved 18 January 2014.
  9. ^ "Dead Snow 2: Red vs. Dead (Død snø 2) (2014)". Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango Media. Retrieved 21 August 2018.
  10. ^ "Dead Snow 2: Red vs. Dead Reviews". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved 1 September 2015.
  11. ^ Harvey, Dennis (22 January 2014). "Sundance Film Review: 'Dead Snow: Red vs. Dead'". Variety. Penske Business Media. Retrieved 1 September 2015.
  12. ^ van Hoeij, Boyd (22 January 2014). "Dead Snow: Red vs. Dead (Dod Sno 2): Sundance Review". The Hollywood Reporter. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved 1 September 2015.
  13. ^ Catsoulis, Jeannette (9 October 2014). "Not Just Nazis, but Undead Ones". The New York Times. Retrieved 1 September 2015.
  14. ^ Abele, Robert (9 October 2014). "'Dead Snow 2: Red vs. Dead' gorges on its own nuttiness". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 1 September 2015.
  15. ^ Collis, Clark (10 October 2014). "Dead Snow 2: Red vs. Dead". Entertainment Weekly. Time. Retrieved 1 September 2015.
  16. ^ Daley, Ryan (27 January 2014). "[BD Review] 'Dead Snow: Red vs. Dead' Gratuitous and Extremely Violent!". Bloody Disgusting. Retrieved 1 September 2015.
  17. ^ McHargue, Brad (5 May 2014). "Dead Snow 2: Red vs. Dead (2014)". Dread Central. Dread Central Media. Retrieved 1 September 2015.

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Dead Snow 2 Red vs Dead Norwegian Dod sno 2 is a 2014 action comedy horror film directed by Tommy Wirkola It is a sequel to Wirkola s 2009 film Dead Snow The film was released in Norway on 12 February and in the United States on 10 October 2014 Vegar Hoel reprises his role from the first film as Martin the sole survivor of an attack by Nazi zombies led by the evil Herzog Orjan Gamst Filming took place in Iceland Dead Snow 2 Red vs DeadTheatrical release posterNorwegianDod sno 2Directed byTommy WirkolaWritten byTommy Wirkola Stig Frode Henriksen Vegar HoelBased onDead Snowby Tommy WirkolaProduced byTerje Stromstad Kjetil OmbergStarringVegar Hoel Orjan Gamst Martin Starr Ingrid Haas Jocelyn DeBoer Stig Frode Henriksen Kristoffer Joner Hallvard Holmen Amrita Acharia Derek Mears Bjarte Tjostheim Christian Rubeck Charlotte Frogner Ingar Helge GimleCinematographyMatthew WestonEdited byMartin StoltzMusic byChristian WibeProductioncompaniesSagafilm Tappeluft Pictures The Fyzz Facility XYZ FilmsDistributed byNordisk Filmdistribusjon Norway Sena Iceland Release dates19 January 2014 2014 01 19 Sundance 12 February 2014 2014 02 12 Norway Running time101 minutesCountriesIceland Norway 1 LanguagesEnglish NorwegianBox office 1 2 million 2 Contents 1 Plot 2 Cast 3 Production 4 Release 4 1 Critical reception 5 See also 6 References 7 External linksPlot editPreviously Martin and his friends draw the ire of Nazi zombies after unwittingly taking the gold they are after When Martin is bitten on the arm he removes the infected arm with a chainsaw After returning their gold to the Nazi zombies Martin realizes he forgot a coin The zombies chase after him and their commander Herzog tenaciously holds on to Martin s car as he flees An oncoming truck slices off Herzog s arm which remains in the car with Martin After Martin passes out at the wheel and is involved in an accident he wakes up in a hospital The police disbelieve his wild stories about zombies and charge him with the murder of his friends To his horror Martin finds that a surgeon has attached Herzog s arm to his stump believing it to be Martin s The zombie arm goes berserk and attacks everyone within reach After Martin kills several people against his will he is sedated and strapped tightly to the bed In the meantime Herzog has his lost arm replaced and begins to conscript more zombie troops by resurrecting freshly killed locals Bobby a young American tourist sneaks into Martin s room when he hears rumors of a zombie attack Impressed with Martin s zombie arm Bobby frees Martin and tells him about the Zombie Squad American professional zombie hunters Before Bobby can contact them the zombie arm throws Bobby out a window Panicked Martin follows and administers CPR but the zombie arm instead crushes Bobby s chest killing him Martin flees the police who believe him to be a child killer and makes contact with the Zombie Squad who turn out to be three nerdy friends Daniel Monica and Blake who promise to come to Norway and assist In the meantime they ask Martin to find out what Herzog wants At a World War II museum Martin meets Glenn Kenneth the souvenir shop s clerk After the zombie arm intimidates him Glenn takes Martin to the museum where they read about Herzog s history Herzog was originally tasked by Hitler himself to wipe out Talvik for their anti Nazi sabotage As Martin realizes Herzog intends to carry out his orders Herzog and his Nazi zombies attack a group of tourists outside and following the slaughter Herzog has his troops arm themselves with old weapons from the museum including a World War II era Tiger tank Martin and Glenn escape death by pretending to be mannequins in the museum While surveying the carnage Martin accidentally discovers that his zombie arm can also raise and control the dead When Daniel arrives he kills the zombie Martin has resurrected Martin demonstrates his newfound power by raising it again Martin Daniel and the sidekick zombie race to find the burial ground of a group of Russian Red Army POWs who had been executed by Herzog during the war as Monica Blake and Glenn work to slow down Herzog Monica and Blake convince Glenn to act as bait to draw some of the zombies into a local swamp where they kill them with pipe bombs they made from the supplies they had After shooting at them with the tank gun several times Herzog continues on his way believing Blake Glenn and Monica to be dead Meanwhile the others discover the graveyard and Martin raises an entire troop of loyal Russian zombies All converge at the town where Martin confronts Herzog Martin points out that they have evacuated the townspeople and thus prevented Herzog from completing his orders but Herzog does not care and attacks them The battle goes well at first but the Nazi zombies eventually overpower Martin s Russian zombies after Herzog kills the Russian commander Lieutenant Stavarin As the Nazi zombies close in on them Monica tells Martin to kill Herzog as it is their only chance Daniel attempts to take control of the Nazi zombie s tank Martin directly confronts Herzog and the others fight Herzog s remaining zombies Glenn is killed by a sneaky knife attack to the throat by a Nazi zombie and Monica and Blake are about to be overwhelmed when Daniel fires the tank gun directly at Herzog while Martin keeps him distracted Herzog is decapitated and the head goes far off into the further away mountains his troops fall lifelessly to the ground saving Monica and Blake After they have celebrated and having been exonerated from the murder charges as the police witnessed the zombie battle Martin drives to the church where Hanna his girlfriend who died during the first film is buried digs up her corpse and brings her back as a zombie The two proceed to make out and have sex as the sidekick zombie looks on in the distance In a post credits scene the Nazi doctor recovers Herzog s severed head which opens its eyes Cast editVegar Hoel as Martin Hykkerud Orjan Gamst as Standartenfuhrer 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 Tjostheim 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 Gudmundur olafsson as Elderly Woman Ingar Helge Gimle as Doctor Brochman Carl Magnus Adner as Bobby Maria Gudmundsdottir as Dame I RullestolProduction editDead Snow 2 Red vs Dead was shot in both English and Norwegian at the same time 3 Filming took place in Iceland Many of the zombies were professional mixed martial arts fighters and Wirkola found it easy to direct them as they were willing to perform showy stunts 4 Release editDead Snow 2 Red vs Dead had its world premiere at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival on 19 January 2014 5 before being released in its home country of Norway on 12 February citation needed The film screened at the 2014 Stanley Film Festival on 25 April citation needed It was released online on 7 October before receiving a limited theatrical release in the US on 10 October 6 Well Go USA released the film on home video on 9 December in the US 7 and Entertainment One released the DVD and Blu ray on 12 January 2015 in the United Kingdom 8 Critical reception edit Rotten Tomatoes a review aggregator reports that 81 of 32 surveyed critics gave the film a positive review the average rating is 6 6 10 The website s critical consensus reads Dead Snow 2 Red vs Dead expands the original s canvas without sacrificing any of its bloody fun adding up to a sequel that fans of the first are bound to enjoy 9 On Metacritic the film has a 59 100 rating based on 10 reviews signifying mixed or average reviews 10 Dennis Harvey of Variety criticized the film s Troma style tone and described the addition of the American characters as pandering to international audiences 11 Boyd van Hoeij of The Hollywood Reporter summed up the film as cartoon violence and action gore and humor all rolled into one schlocky but enjoyable package 12 Jeannette Catsoulis of The New York Times wrote if the movie s hilariously cruel treatment of the halt and the lame upsets you you can enjoy the crisp cinematography operatically repulsive effects and frequently witty dialogue 13 Robert Abele of the Los Angeles Times wrote As bad taste splatter comedies go Dead Snow 2 is one of the more charitably nutty ones less about gorging on gore than reveling in how silly the whole genre can be 14 Clark Collis of Entertainment Weekly rated it B and called it dementedly enjoyable 15 Ryan Daley of Bloody Disgusting rated it 4 5 stars and called the film a textbook example of a talented director using extreme violence as a cathartic safety valve 16 Brad McHargue of Dread Central rated it 4 5 stars and wrote Dead Snow 2 is an utterly silly film that revels in its absurdity and that s why it works 17 See also editZombie SquadReferences edit Dead Snow 2 Red vs Dead Dod Sno 2 Norwegian Film Institute Archived from the original on 9 September 2019 Retrieved 9 September 2019 Dead Snow 2 Red vs Dead Box Office Mojo Retrieved 16 January 2015 Thorkildsen Joakim 16 September 2014 At det er litt norsk aksent gjor ingenting Dagbladet Retrieved 1 September 2015 Buckley Heather 17 October 2014 Exclusive Tommy Wirkola Talks Dead Snow 2 Red vs Dead Dread Central Retrieved 1 September 2015 Indiewire 10 January 2014 Sundance 2014 Park City at Midnight IndieWire Penske Business Media Retrieved 18 January 2014 Dead Snow 2 Red vs Dead IGN Ziff Davis Retrieved 1 September 2015 Barton Steve 14 October 2014 Dead Snow 2 Red vs Dead Marches on Blu ray and DVD Dread Central Dread Central Media Retrieved 1 September 2015 Jones Gareth 24 December 2014 UK Readers Win Dead Snow 2 Red vs Dead on Blu ray Dread Central Dread Central Media Retrieved 18 January 2014 Dead Snow 2 Red vs Dead Dod sno 2 2014 Rotten Tomatoes Fandango Media Retrieved 21 August 2018 Dead Snow 2 Red vs Dead Reviews Metacritic CBS Interactive Retrieved 1 September 2015 Harvey Dennis 22 January 2014 Sundance Film Review Dead Snow Red vs Dead Variety Penske Business Media Retrieved 1 September 2015 van Hoeij Boyd 22 January 2014 Dead Snow Red vs Dead Dod Sno 2 Sundance Review The Hollywood Reporter Prometheus Global Media Retrieved 1 September 2015 Catsoulis Jeannette 9 October 2014 Not Just Nazis but Undead Ones The New York Times Retrieved 1 September 2015 Abele Robert 9 October 2014 Dead Snow 2 Red vs Dead gorges on its own nuttiness Los Angeles Times Retrieved 1 September 2015 Collis Clark 10 October 2014 Dead Snow 2 Red vs Dead Entertainment Weekly Time Retrieved 1 September 2015 Daley Ryan 27 January 2014 BD Review Dead Snow Red vs Dead Gratuitous and Extremely Violent Bloody Disgusting Retrieved 1 September 2015 McHargue Brad 5 May 2014 Dead Snow 2 Red vs Dead 2014 Dread Central Dread Central Media Retrieved 1 September 2015 External links editDead Snow 2 Red vs Dead at IMDb nbsp Dead Snow 2 Red vs Dead at Box Office Mojo Dead Snow 2 Red vs Dead at Rotten Tomatoes Dead Snow 2 Red vs Dead at Metacritic nbsp Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Dead Snow 2 Red vs Dead amp oldid 1214688825, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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