DEAD SNOW 2: RED VS. DEAD [2014]

aka Død Snø 2

Norwegian director Tommy Wirkola returns to his Nazi zombie world in Dead Snow 2: Red vs. Dead, the follow-up to his 2009 cult-hit splatter-fest.
This time the story is bigger & badder, as it takes our sole surviving hero and turns him into a Norwegian version of Evil Dead's Ash going against a Nazi zombie invasion of several countryside villages.  While the original film was bland and predictable, this one steps it up several notches and goes all out with the outrageous humor and keeps you guessing as what the fuck is about to happen next.  It's in bad taste (get it?) and Wirkola knows that, so he makes the best of it with a loony sense of absurdity and hilariously graphic violence, all while breaking all the rules of your usual zombie flick.  It's everything I expected from the first film times a hundred.
...and never before have I felt so sorry for a zombie.  You'll know what I mean.  

3½ little man-pussies out of 5

DEAD SNOW [2009]

aka Død snø

Director Tommy Wirkola's Norwegian splatterfest Dead Snow deserves points for coming up with the outrageously memorable idea of Nazi zombies.
It follows the story of a group of students who go for a drunken vacation in the snowy Norway mountains where they're hunted down by a pack of the SS undead.  Instead of going right into the entertaining absurd, the film sadly spends too much time running over the same ol' horror movie staples and really doesn't amount to much until the final act.  The characters are all so boring you can't wait for the carnage to start happening but when it does it doesn't disappoint.  The gore effects are wonderful, the humor is off-the-wall hilarious and the photography is great but all that doesn't save it from being pretty bland.  It's a great campy concept that doesn't use what it has to it's full advantage.  

2 sexy outhouse moments out of 5