Dead Snow (2009) aka Død Snø, directed by Tommy Wirkola, MPI remaster, encoded in 10 bit HEVC with AAC sound, including original Norwegian theatrical 5.1, and subtitles in English and Spanish.

IMDb : https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1278340/

Video encoded in two-pass 11.0 Mbps x265 10bit with the veryslow preset for archive quality image.

English subtitles OCRed, proofed and corrected. All other subtitles converted to VobSub and repositioned.

Note : Tommy Wirkola has been in the news lately after the relase of the trailer for his action comedy Violent Night, where David Harbour stars as Santa Claus in an actual Die Hard-esque Christmas movie, and that film kind of looks like a return to his roots, which were ultra-low-budget splatter comedies, of which this is the second. A film that's light on story, but heavy on nazi zombies tearing people apart in the snow, it's a fun little romp if you want to turn your brain off a little.

A group of medical students go to a cabin in the mountains of northern Norway for vacation, where they're supposed to meet the cabin's owner, who's been skiing across the mountains on her own. However, she doesn't show up, and a visit from a weird old man who tells them a story about a group of nazis during World War II who escaped into the mountains and probably froze to death proves unnerving. Soon after, one of them disappears from the outhouse, and they find themselves besieged by half-frozen nazi zombies bent on recovering their stolen gold, and eating our heroes alive in the process. There are snowmobiles with machine guns, chainsaw melee combat, and extremely copious amounts of gore as they fight it out to the last man. Also, in the film's perhaps most shocking scene, a horror movie nerd wearing a Braindead t-shirt has actual sex with a real, live woman.

This was never a great looking film, with kind of uninspired digital cinematography, especially in the early parts, though it picks up a bit when the carnage gets going. Still, a fine remaster, and not too hard to encode well. 5.1 track sounds good, shame about the lack of commentary tracks.

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