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It does seem like the lost "Grindhouse" trailer. Through the years they're always talking about SS wolves, but not Waffen snow zombies.

And you're right, this kinda thing's Esperanto. Jack Nicholson is saying there's bad shit out on the slopes...AND INDEED THERE IS. What else do I need to know? It's also funny that the guy say "the fuck?", whatever it is he's actually saying in Norwegian. "The fuck?" indeed.

Nazi, Zombie, Bitches...

I'm pretty sure there are plenty of porn and exploitation films that contain all that plus werewolves and decapitations all the time. How mundane.

It's hard. It's usually not hard this early in the day. Thanks for the clip.

While I do love an abominable zombie snowman, I approach this with reservation. Is there a compelling reason for the zombies to be Nazis? Do zombies hold to their ideologies even after the metamorphosis? Is this supposed to make the audience find them less human? Why? Is zombie-sympathy a problem with test audiences? So many questions...

Mostly, I wonder how long until the American version is released and whether, to make the film more accessible to the "Joe Six-Pack" demographic, the zombies will be Muslims instead.

"Nazi zombies?
'"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076704/">Been done.
There's bitches, too. Also, Peter Cushing.
I saw this in the theater. On a date. Good Christ, I am older than the forests.
Posted by: Jerce at October 3, 2008 10:00 AM"

Yep, I have that dvd. But I also saw it on betamax when I was a youngun. I too am older than the forests.
It's a pretty cool movie.

Is there a compelling reason for the zombies to be Nazis?

Oh to be that naive about Nazi-sploitation films again.

To answer your question, Mella, yes. Nazis are associated in horror films with the sadistic experiments performed on the Jews by the scientists. The seeds were sewn in Hollywood with the early Universal horrors containing bizarre, cruel experiments on the living and the dead for the pursuit of power and God-like abilities, eerily similar to the experiments that would be revealed post-WWII. Once the war atrocities were made clear, everybody jumped on the bandwagon, especially Italy. Canada produced the most well known, Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS, though it is not alone in its approach. The trend tended to die down in the 80's thanks to Red scare with the USSR, though the films still trickle out.

So there are super-Nazi films (avoid that awful Sci-Fi one at all costs; someone had to try really to make super-Nazis not campy, over the top, and entertaining to watch), and female-nazis, and, the old staple, Nazis brought back from the dead for nefarious purposes. It's educational and insulting at the same time.

I remember another Nazi zombie movie. Years and years ago I stayed up very late to stare at the cleavage of Elvira, Mistress of the Dark. The movie on her show was about Nazi and American GI zombies coming out of bunkers every night on a forgotten battle to refight WWII. The only thing I can remember other than Elvira was that the hero snuck into a bunker dressed like a soldier and when he woke up the next morning all the GI zombies had turned into skeletons. Also a plump German says "Ah, gut eve-nink, mein Herr," to an unseen assailant before getting a knife wound in the belly.

Aw, who the the hell cares if the movie's cribbing ShockWaves?

It's crazy zombie action and an opportunity for me to jibber through the whole movie in my best Swedish Chef voice.

Yippee!!

And you don't see many zombie/snowmobile actions sequences. 'Cause folks, that's what the world needs right now.

Zombies.
Snowmobiles.
Together.

Brilliant.

I can see the brainstorming session for this one:

"Everyone loves Nazis as the bad guys in movies, but it's been nearly half a century, how can we--"

And then all at once:

"ZOMBIES!"

At which point they picked up their super-8s and filmed that trailer in an afternoon.

Hell fucking yes. I am making a pact right now: I promise to watch this movie on a dark, snowy night (preferably stormy as well) while sipping whiskey out of a replica Nazi helmet. Or a real one if someone can provide it.

Who's with me?

It's not about ideology. Nazi Zombies are fascinating because they are like two well known evils rolled into one. Zombies are scary (if done right) but seeing a Zombie Nazi soldier approaching you is even scarier.

A movie with Ray Stevenson? With Nazis? Leftover Nazis from evil Nazi experimentation, even?

I'm sold, Adam C. I just put it in my Netflix queue--thanks!

Why nazi zombies? There is a perfectly good reason to a unlikely scenario. The story in the movie is located to North of Norway which was occupied by nazi's during the second world war. Now the apparently have decided to wake and shine their light over some studens.. :)