I wish we’d thought of this!
I can’t tell you how many conversations about movies we’ve had that have verified the inescapable conclusion that there are only 2 politically acceptable ‘kills’ in moviedom – zombies and Nazis.
Pretty much any other victim you can think of someone has come up with a politically correcty sympathy angle that takes all the fun out of blatantly killing the bad guy. Star Trek tamed the Borg, Darth Vader just wanted to be loved, Norman Bates really was a nice guy deep down… But with zombies – the mindless marauding undead you’ve got a free pass to hack, slash, burn and shoot them by the dozens. Same with Nazis… they are on the side of evil and everyone agrees they’re unsympathetic fair game in the movies.
So when I saw the trailer for DEAD SNOW I was thunderstruck by the obvious. How did no one else come up with this? How did WE not come up with this ourselves… ZOMBIE NAZIS!
Could there be any easier to fear, easier to hate, more satisfying to kill bad guys?
Now it’s one thing to grab some friends and make a cheesy low budget zombie movie… and kudos to all who do… but to make a Zombie Nazi movie – in the snow packed mountains… AND get selected by the Sundance Film Festival? These guys certifiably brilliant.
I can’t wait to see DEAD SNOW – if not for any of the above reasons, then for their killer tag line:
EIN! ZWEI! DIE!
(prepublished from a previous blog host 12.08.08)
