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DEAD SNOW (Tommy Wirkola). 87 minutes. Subtitled. Opens Friday (September 25). For venues, times, and trailers, see Movies.

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Dead Zombie

Zombie alert

By Andrew Dowler

Dead Snow is your basic old-school zombie flick: low budget, small brain and special effects swiped from a butcher shop. But it’s fun when it gets going, thanks to one good twist – the zombies are leftover Nazi soldiers.

An eight-pack of Norwegian university kids head off to a remote mountain cabin for a ski weekend. An old guy shows up to lay out the local legend. Zombies attack, and the kids make a run for it. This leads to a good cliffhanger moment with intestines and energetic, gory fun with a chainsaw, hammer and sickle, machine gun and snowmobile.

Director Tommy Wirkola and his cast give it their best shot, but they don’t have the intensity of the original Night Of The Living Dead or the resources to pull off the spectacular splatter of, say, Diary Of The Dead, so there’s ample time to watch the scenery, which is beautiful, and the actors, who aren’t.