I’m not sure what it is exactly that I find so appealing about snowbound movies. Maybe it was seeing John Carpenter’s The Thing at an early and impressionable age or just that I like the idea of the elements conspiring against the protagonists as much as the threat outside… but I’m always eager to see something that promises a splash of red on white.

Twitch gave me a little buzz by covering some of the promotional material for upcoming Norwegian Nazi zombie horror comedy, Dead Snow. It also taps into schlock like Zombie Lake and Shock Waves (which I quite like), but it’s mostly the idea of frozen Nazi zombies played for giggles that appeals.

It won’t have to try too hard to be better than 30 Days of Night (which, axe scenes aside, was annoyingly dull) but will have some way to go to compete with the sublime Ravenous.

Speaking of snow…

I have it on good authority that Far North, one of my favourite films at last year’s London Film Festival, is getting a suitably chilly December release here in the UK. While not really a horror movie, it is equally beautiful and disturbing and without a doubt my favourite movie of Sean Bean’s to date. It also falls into that tricky little pigeon hole: movies you’re not allowed to talk about the ending of…

Here’s the trailer:

Bonus: Skip back 5 posts for the best Thing homage I’ve seen and then sing along to the blinding whiteness of the tuuuuuundra.