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Dead Snow Finally Arrives on DVD

8 hours ago | HorrorYearbook | See recent HorrorYearbook news »

U.S. horror fans that haven't already watched Dead Snow illegally or on VOD will have to wait until February 23, 2010 to catch it on DVD. Dead Snow is arguably the best zombie film of 2009, and a definite must see for all zombie fans. The Norwegian Nazi/Zombie film follows a group of friends on a ski vacation who run into a Nazi-zombie battalion haunting the mountains. »

- wil

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Horror Coming Home: Zombie's Halloween II and Dead Snow

10 November 2009 11:28 AM, PST | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »

Information on when you can get your hands on two kind of underwhelming flicks that should have been a lot better dropped today. Zombie's psychobilly freak-out Halloween II and Tommy Wirkola's all too quirky zombie opus Dead Snow are both on their way!

According to Video Eta IFC Films will be dropping Dead Snow (which is currently available on Blockbuster DVD exclusively) onto DVD and Blu-ray on February 23, 2010. No special features have been announced.

Rob Zombie's Halloween II will be making its DVD and Blu-Ray debut on January 12, 2010. Yep, the alternate cut is on its way, and even though no special features have been announced, you can pretty much bet it will have a nice long documentary in tow. Say what you want about Zombie and his movies, the man knows how to treat fans with his DVD releases.

Look for more soon, including official specs and cover art. »

- Uncle Creepy

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DVD Date Info Drops for Dead Snow

10 November 2009 | shocktillyoudrop.com | See recent shocktillyoudrop news »

Tommy Wirkola's Dead Snow left me cold, but I'm eager to give it another try when it lands on DVD. Right now, it's looking like IFC Films is going to usher the film out wide on DVD and Blu-Ray February 23, 2010. It's currently available on DVD at Blockbuster exclusively. No special features have been announced, but we'll update you once the official word (and cover art) comes in. The film finds a group of 20-somethings out on a ski vacation. But their trip is spoiled by resurrected Nazi soldiers out for blood. »

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Dead Snow Gets DVD Release Date

9 November 2009 11:39 PM, PST | HugAZombie | See recent HugAZombie news »

Next February will be a busy month for zombie DVDs. Tommy Wirkola's Dead Snow will be arriving for DVD and Blu-Ray on the 23rd. Zombieland and I Sell The Dead are also tentatively arriving in February.

Dead Snow tells the age-old tale of what happens to a bunch of Norwegian medical students when the uncover some artifacts belonging to the Nazi zombies.

Source: VideoETA Via Styd »

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French Zombie Film The Horde Gets U.S. Distribution

6 November 2009 4:21 AM, PST | HugAZombie | See recent HugAZombie news »

Screen Daily reports that IFC has picked up the distribution rights for The Horde, the French zombie film by writer/directors Yannick Dahan and Benjamin Rocher.

Earlier this year, IFC brought Norwegian Nazi zombie movie Dead Snow to the U.S., which could mean good things for The Horde's quality. 

No release date has been mentioned so far. So, instead, here's the synopsis:

North of Paris. In order to avenge the murder of one of their own by a group of ruthless gangsters, four corrupt cops go on a rampage in a condemned building serving as the mobster’s hideout. Now trapped, the officers are about to be executed when the unimaginable occurs: hordes of bloodthirsty, cannibalistic creatures invade the building, savagely attacking everyone. Unexpected alliances are made when their lives are threatened by the unthinkable.

 

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Detour Trailer and Official Poster

3 November 2009 11:07 PM, PST | 28 Days Later Analysis | See recent 28 Days Later Analysis news »

Norway has brought us some of the best horror films in the last couple of years including Rovdyr, Skjult, Cold Prey I & II, and Dod Sno (Dead Snow), but now there is a new star on the horizon. Detour, from director Severin Eskeland, will shine brightly at the Afm, but now the first trailer and poster are available to be seen. To star Marte Germaine Christensen, Sondre Krogtoft Larsen, and Jens Hultèn Detour will be released in North America once distribution has been found. Check out the first trailer for the film below along with a plot summary.

A synopsis for Detour here:

"Driving back to Norway, Lina and Martin reach a roadblock where a policeman tells them to take a detour deep into the Swedish forest. But soon one creepy incident after another leaves them stranded in the dark woods and everything seems much too bizarre to be accidental… »

- Michael Ross Allen

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The 10 Greatest Zombie Movies Ever Made

29 October 2009 10:49 AM, PDT | MovieRetriever | See recent MovieRetriever news »

Oct 29, 2009

Is there anyone out there that doesn’t enjoy a good zombie movie? The recent success of Zombieland, the popularity of the cinema of the undead suggests that there isn’t. Zombie Cinema is a genre that owes its beginning to the seminal Night of the Living Dead in the late 1960s. But, it’s also one that has shown remarkable growth over the last few years as renewed interest in the genre has produced films like 28 Days Later, Dead Snow, Pontypool, and even remakes of some of the genres more enduring ...Read more at MovieRetriever.com »

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Review: Dead Snow

8 October 2009 3:39 PM, PDT | The Hollywood News | See recent The Hollywood News news »

Adam Mast reviews the Nazi-zombie flick!

Nazis are villainous enough, but - as the gleefully gory Dead Snow so chillingly illustrates - Nazi zombies are the personification of pure evil.

As Dead Snow opens, a group of Norwegian twenty-somethings are making their way to an isolated weekend retreat. Their plans? To ski, party, and get haked. The plans are cut short however, when murderous Nazi zombies show up and spoil the party.

Dead Snow certainly has a familiar set up. With it's intentionally obvious first act and self referential humor, this film knows exactly what it wants to be; a blood drenched slice of playful zombie horror. Once the Nazi zombies make their appearance, Dead Snow really comes alive in a relentless, lively bit of gory fun that evoked big time cheers from the audience I screened it with.

There are several memorable moments to speak of in Dead Snow »

- Paul

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Trailer: The Revenant

6 October 2009 11:36 PM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »

Earlier this year Nigel Hamid our Toronto correspondent wrote a review raving about  The Revenant, the new film by director D. Kerry Prior. The film played with Dead Snow in a double feature at the 2009 After Dark Film Festival and received the Silver Award for best independent feature film. The film also had a preliminary screening at the Xanadu Sci Fi, Horror and Fantasy Convention in Las Vegas where it won "Best Feature Film" at the closing awards ceremony. In May, 2009, The Revenant was screened at the Zompire Undead Film Festival in Portland, Oregon, where it won the "Jury Award for Best Feature and Best Director", plus the "Audience Award for Best of Festival." The Revenant is a story about an ancient pestilence recurring to infect modern society. Officer First Class Bart Gregory is killed while fighting in Middle East. His body is shipped back to the United States and laid to rest, »

- Ricky

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Spotlight Review: Zombieland

4 October 2009 9:06 PM, PDT | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »

Starring: Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Emma Stone, Abigail Breslin

Director: Ruben Fleischer

Release Date: October 2, 2009

Running Time: 80 min

MPAA Rating: R

Distributor: Sony Pictures

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I'm not one for that weird horror/comedy genre. I really did not enjoy Sam Raimi's Drag Me To Hell. And there are very few exceptions to this rule for me (see: Dead Snow). But director Ruben Fleischer could really change my mind, in a big way. His feature-length directorial debut, Zombieland, is hilarious, and breathes new life into the zombie genre just when it needed the most (the vampires have been leading the game for years now).

The premise is like most zombie films: most of the world dies, survivors deal with zombies. The film is narrated by Columbus (Jesse Eisenberg). He's an introverted gamer with irritable bowel syndrome who chooses to spend his weekends at home playing World of War »

- blakecgriffin@gmail.com (Blake Griffin)

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Spotlight Review: Zombieland

4 October 2009 9:06 PM, PDT | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »

Starring: Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Emma Stone, Abigail Breslin

Director: Ruben Fleischer

Release Date: October 2, 2009

Running Time: 80 min

MPAA Rating: R

Distributor: Sony Pictures

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I'm not one for that weird horror/comedy genre. I really did not enjoy Sam Raimi's Drag Me To Hell. And there are very few exceptions to this rule for me (see: Dead Snow). But director Ruben Fleischer could really change my mind, in a big way. His feature-length directorial debut, Zombieland, is hilarious, and breathes new life into the zombie genre just when it needed the most (the vampires have been leading the game for years now).

The premise is like most zombie films: most of the world dies, survivors deal with zombies. The film is narrated by Columbus (Jesse Eisenberg). He's an introverted gamer with irritable bowel syndrome who chooses to spend his weekends at home playing World of War »

- blakecgriffin@gmail.com (Blake Griffin)

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Spotlight Review: Zombieland

4 October 2009 9:06 PM, PDT | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »

Starring: Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Emma Stone, Abigail Breslin

Director: Ruben Fleischer

Release Date: October 2, 2009

Running Time: 80 min

MPAA Rating: R

Distributor: Sony Pictures

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I'm not one for that weird horror/comedy genre. I really did not enjoy Sam Raimi's Drag Me To Hell. And there are very few exceptions to this rule for me (see: Dead Snow). But director Ruben Fleischer could really change my mind, in a big way. His feature-length directorial debut, Zombieland, is hilarious, and breathes new life into the zombie genre just when it needed the most (the vampires have been leading the game for years now).

The premise is like most zombie films: most of the world dies, survivors deal with zombies. The film is narrated by Columbus (Jesse Eisenberg). He's an introverted gamer with irritable bowel syndrome who chooses to spend his weekends at home playing World of War »

- blakecgriffin@gmail.com (Blake Griffin)

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Spotlight Review: Zombieland

4 October 2009 9:06 PM, PDT | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »

Starring: Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Emma Stone, Abigail Breslin

Director: Ruben Fleischer

Release Date: October 2, 2009

Running Time: 80 min

MPAA Rating: R

Distributor: Sony Pictures

- - -

I'm not one for that weird horror/comedy genre. I really did not enjoy Sam Raimi's Drag Me To Hell. And there are very few exceptions to this rule for me (see: Dead Snow). But director Ruben Fleischer could really change my mind, in a big way. His feature-length directorial debut, Zombieland, is hilarious, and breathes new life into the zombie genre just when it needed the most (the vampires have been leading the game for years now).

The premise is like most zombie films: most of the world dies, survivors deal with zombies. The film is narrated by Columbus (Jesse Eisenberg). He's an introverted gamer with irritable bowel syndrome who chooses to spend his weekends at home playing World of War »

- blakecgriffin@gmail.com (Blake Griffin)

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DreamWorks gets busy with ‘Xombies’

1 October 2009 8:28 AM, PDT | ReelLoop.com | See recent Reel Loop news »

Zombies are becoming the new vampire.

DreamWorks is set to adapt Xombies, the hit web cartoon/comic written by James Farr. Revolving around a thoughtful zombie named Dirge, our heroic member of the undead protects a little girl from the deadly rampages of Zombies. The studio is looking to nab Star Trek writers Alex Kurtzman and Robert Oci to produce, with an adapted script from Will Beall.

Xombie’s first story was released as a Flash-based cartoon with a five-part comic miniseries published by Devil’s Due.

Zombies have always had a proud place in American cinema (and Swedish! Check out Dead Snow for details) and viewers can get another whiff of rotting bodies with the upcoming black comedy Zombieland.

Related posts:Tons of pictures from ‘The Twilight Saga: New Moon’: guess who has the best six-pack?‘Nightmare on Elm Street’ teaser lands online: Freddy still one ugly muther‘Resident Evil: Afterlife »

- Erik Buckman

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Fangoria to be celebrated at Spain’s Sitges film fest

24 September 2009 9:52 PM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »

The 30th anniversary of Fangoria magazine will be honored at a special panel to be held at the 42nd edition of Spain’s prestigious Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia,  to be held October 1-12. Longtime Fango editor Tony Timpone will be attending, joined by British correspondents Alan Jones, Calum Waddell and Axelle Carolyn, as well as Italian correspondent Roberto D’Onofrio. The Fango salute will take place on Sunday, Oct. 4 at 5 p.m. in the Tramuntana Room at the Meliá Hotel.

“For the last 30 years, Fangoria has been the cornerstone of the Sitges program’s diet,” says festival director Angel Sala, “the number-one source of information to feed the bowels of the beast. Fango has been the written witness of the horror scene around the world for over three decades. Sitges can only bow and pay due respect with a celebration for the fans.”

“The panel will be »

- no-reply@fangoria.com (Fangoria.com)

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Star Trek Writers Checking Out Xombies

23 September 2009 12:50 AM, PDT | FilmShaft.com | See recent FilmShaft.com news »

Dreamworks and the writing tag team behind Star Trek, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci are looking at zombies, no scratch that – Xombies!

The studio is in talks to buy the film rights for Xombie, the Devil’s Due comic book by James Farr about a zombie cop named Dirge who sets out to save what is left of humanity after zombies go on the rampage, according to The Hollywood Reporter:

DreamWorks is in negotiations to acquire the source material. The logline for the movie version is being kept under wraps.

If deals are closed, Cindi Rice and John Frank Rosenblum of Epic Level Entertainment would exec produce along with Kurtzman/Orci’s Bobby Cohen and Steven T. Puri.

Zombies have clearly become the creature of choice recently, with small budget movies like Dead Snow and The Fourth Reich (in theatres next year) and of course Woody Harrelson’s black comedy »

- Craig Sharp

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Sitges 2009 Complete Lineup

19 September 2009 12:48 AM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »

The Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia announces its complete program. There are still a few surprises to be confirmed, like the closing gala, but they have already put together the final list of films that will be screened at Sitges 09. Below you’ll find the titles of each film and their sections as well as links for the films that we have already reviewed here on Sound On Sight. Opening Film [Rec]2. Paco Plaza and Jaume Balagueró. 2009. Official FANTÀSTIC In Competition Section Accident. Soi Cheang. 2009. Accidents Happen. Andrew Lancaster. 2009. The Children. Tom Shankland. 2008. [1] Cold Souls. Sophie Bartes. 2009. The Countess. Julie Delpy. 2009. Les Derniers Jours Du Monde. Jean-Marie and Arnaud Larrieu. 2009. Dogtooth (Kynodontas). Yorgos Lanthimos. 2009. Dorian Gray. Oliver Parker. 2009. Enter The Void. Gaspar Noé. 2009. Grace. Paul Solet. 2009. [2] Heartless. Philip Ridley. 2009. Hierro. Gabe Ibáñez. 2009. La Horde. Yannick Dahan and Benjamin Rocher. 2009. Ingrid. Eduard Cortés. 2009. Kinatay. Brillante Mendoza. 2009. Metropia. Tarik Saleh. 2009. Moon. »

- Ricky

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'Hansel and Gretel' Getting Ready To Kick Ass, With or Without Will Ferrell

17 September 2009 9:00 AM, PDT | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »

There are some projects that you hope will be awesome, and others that you know will be an instant classic. Personally, I’m wiling to put my money down on “Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters,” a film that exists as little more than a rough script at the moment – but that director/producer/all-around funnyman Adam McKay assured me will get turned into something special soon.

“Oh, I love that project,” the “Funny or Die” co-founder and frequent Will Ferrell collaborator enthused. “That’s really chugging along.”

Written and soon-to-be directed by Norwegian filmmaker Tommy Wirkola, McKay told me that both he and Ferrell are fans of Wirkola’s beloved, little-seen Nazi zombie film “Dead Snow.” “It’s the guy who did the zombie Nazi pic, so it’s a bad-ass movie,” the “Talladega Nights” director said of his “Hansel” collaborator. “It’s in the vein of an ‘Evil Dead II’ or ‘Army of Darkness. »

- Larry Carroll

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Sitges 09: And the full lineup includes...

12 September 2009 1:14 AM, PDT | QuietEarth.us | See recent QuietEarth news »

The full lineup has been announced, and among the load of genre fare that's been running the fest circuit are the world premiers of:

Vincenzo Natali's latest, Splice, which we're all excited about.

Simon Fellows twisted adaptation Malice in Wonderland (trailer)

Along some of our personal favorites:

Black Dynamite (friggin awesome)

Swiss scifi flick Cargo (trailer)

Pater Sparrow's incredible Stanislaw Lem adaptation 1 (review)

The Mo Brothers Indonesian slasher Macabre (review)

Atm (get it?) horror-comedy The Human Centipede (review)

Full list after the break.

Opening Film

[Rec]2. Paco Plaza and Jaume Balagueró. 2009.

Official FANTÀSTIC In Competition Section

Accident. Soi Cheang. 2009.

Accidents Happen. Andrew Lancaster. 2009.

The Children. Tom Shankland. 2008.

Cold Souls. Sophie Bartes. 2009.

The Countess. Julie Delpy. 2009.

Les Derniers Jours Du Monde. Jean-Marie and Arnaud Larrieu. 2009.

Dogtooth (Kynodontas). Yorgos Lanthimos. 2009.

Dorian Gray. Oliver Parker. 2009.

Enter The Void. Gaspar Noé. 2009.

Grace. Paul Solet. 2009.

Heartless. Philip Ridley. 2009.

Hierro. Gabe Ibáñez. 2009.

La Horde. Yannick Dahan and Benjamin Rocher. »

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Dead Snow (Død Snø)

11 September 2009 5:30 AM, PDT | The Scorecard Review | See recent Scorecard Review news »

Dead Snow (Død Snø)

Directed by: Tommy Wirkola

Cast: Vegar Hoel, Charlotte Frogner

Running Time: 1 hr 30 mins

Rating: Unrated

Release Date: September 11, 2009

Plot: A group of medical students travel to a secluded mountain cabin to spend a weekend engaging in drunken sex and winter sports. Unfortunately, the hills surrounding the cabin are full of Nazi Zombies! So that’s going to be a problem.

Who’s It For? If you like slasher films and don’t mind subtitles, this is for you.

Expectations: Zombies are badass, Nazis are evil, so Nazi Zombies must be on a whole new unimaginable level, right? Right?

Scorecard (0-10)

Actors:

Vegar Hoel as Martin: Martin’s a medical student who’s afraid of blood, so you know that he’s going to have issues when the zombies show up. Hoel’s credible in his role but I never really liked him, or cared if he lived. »

- Megan Lehar

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