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- by KIM Hyun-soo / Jul 31, 2014
- Winner of Best Director and Actor Prizes at PiFan 2014, Dead Snow 2 Director Tommy WIRKOLA and actor Vegar HOEL
A Dead Snow (2009) fever gripped the Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival(PiFan) 2009. The director Tommy WIRKOLAand lead actor Vegar HOEL of the comic horror film flew into PiFan2014 with its sequel, Dead Snow 2. The film became one of the most anticipated films at the PiFan2014 since it had been well received at major international film festivals. The film picked up the Best Director and Actor Prizes at the PiFan2014, proving its cinematic attractiveness.“The sequel expanded compared to the first film in terms of sets and production crews among others,” said a confident WIRKOLA who returned to the PiFan after five years with “funny zombies.” “The expansion empowered us to complete everything we wanted to do.” The director overcame a popular saying in the film industry, “No sequel eclipses its previous film,” by strategically focusing on making the second film as a splatter film by adding action to the original film where only humor and horror are mixed. “I used the settings of past horror films such as Dead Alive (1992) and Evil Dead (1981) in the first film,” said WIRKOLA, a big fan of zombie films. “In the sequel, we made efforts to create our pure (Norwegian) originality.”
“I
wanted to show a scene where Nazi zombies and Russian military zombies fight
with each other not in winter but in summer in a wonder landscape in Iceland,” WIRKOLA said when
asked about why the background of the sequel is not a snow-covered field even
though its title is “Dead Snow 2.”
Following the director’s answer, HOEL humorously added, “This time, snow dies,
too.” Therefore, the sequel contains HOEL’s humor since the actor co-wrote the
script. So to speak, it is quite a smart
idea to use major elements of the Star
Wars series as elements for action and humor in the entire film. The next
project of WIRKOLA who put an
emphasis on action and comedy throughout the interview is the low-budget sci-fi
film What Happened to Monday starring Noomi RAPACE who played the female lead role in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009). A unique
combination of blood and laughter is expected to continue in Hollywood.Dead Snow 2: Red vs. Dead
Zombie has met fantasy. Nazi troops have revived
as zombies. There are even commanders and army surgeons. They communicate each
other and move systematically. They are more like orc soldiers of The Lord of the Rings than zombies.
Instead of biting, the commander casts spell to turn one into a zombie. The
main character standing against the commander has similar abilities because he
had an arm transplanted from the commander. He revives Russian zombies to fight
the Nazi zombies. It simply goes way too far.
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