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A farewell to arms: Dead Snow 2 - Red vs Dead

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image generated by Craiyon This film review first appeared on Letterboxd. It contains spoilers for 'Dead Snow 2: Red vs Dead' and 'Dead Snow'. These films are not for the faint of heart, and neither is this review. ~ Dead Snow 2: Red vs Dead A film that bills itself as “the sequel you did Nazi coming” is not setting itself up as a poignant study of life under one of the most evil regimes of the 20th century. The dregs of the Third Reich may figure prominently in 'Dead Snow 2', but this film is not 'Schindler's List', or even 'The Sound of Music'. Its predecessor, which goose-stepped into theatres under the tag-line “Ein! Zwei! Die!” expanded the list of vengeful entities and criminal organisations that you should never steal gold from (generally speaking, leprechauns and the mob) to include Nazi zombies. Beginning as a fairly standard run through the well-mauled tropes of the monster movie subgenre, 'Dead Snow' followed the misfortune...