For eight medical students, Easter
vacation begins innocently enough. They pack their cars full
of ski equipment and enough beer to fuel their escape from
everyday life to the snowy, isolated hills outside of
Øksfjord, Norway. Once there, they receive a late-night
visit from a shady hiker, who tells them a story about Nazi
occupation of the area during World War II. After doing
their fair share of raping and pillaging, the dreaded
battalion faced a brutal and vengeful uprising by the
citizens of the town. The soldiers who managed to survive
the onslaught, including their dreaded leader Colonel
Herzog, were driven into the hills by the angry mob, where
they supposedly froze to death, never to be seen again. But
if the horror genre has taught us anything, it’s that the
raucous behavior and promiscuity of the younger generation
always have a way of bringing evil spirits back to life.
Director Tommy Wirkola pulls no punches in the carnage
department—heads roll, blood flows, and entrails ooze as the
young vacationers attempt to make it through the night.
Wirkola adeptly utilizes the snow’s eerie and ominous
backdrop to its fullest extent while orchestrating this
wickedly gory, yet somehow delightful, tale of Nazi zombie
terror.
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