Dead Snow 2: Red vs. Dead
Norwegian release poster
Directed by	Tommy Wirkola
Written by	Tommy Wirkola Stig Frode Henriksen Vegar Hoel
Produced by	Terje Strømstad
Starring	Vegar Hoel Orjan Gamst Martin Starr Ingrid Haas Jocelyn DeBoer Stig Frode Henriksen Kristoffer Joner
Cinematography	Matthew Weston
Edited by	Martin Stoltz
Music by	Christian Wibe
Production companies	Saga Film Tappeluft Pictures thefyzz XYZ Films
Distributed by	Well Go USA Entertainment
Release dates	19 January 2014 (2014-01-19) (Sundance) 12 February 2014 (2014-02-12) (Norway)
Running time	100 minutes
Countries	Norway Iceland
Languages	Norwegian English German
Budget	NOK 35 million (USD$5.2 million)

Dead Snow 2: Red vs. Dead (Norwegian: Død Snø 2) is a 2014 Norwegian-Icelandic horror comedy film directed by Tommy Wirkola. It is a sequel to Wirkola's 2009 film Dead Snow.^[1] The film was released in the United States on 10 October 2014.

Plot

Continuing from where the last film ended, Martin wakes up in a hospital after crashing his car while trying to escape from Colonel Herzog after finding one of the Colonel's coins in his car and placed under arrest when the police suspected that he killed his friends, laughing off the zombie explanation. The good news is that the arm he sawed off to halt a bite infection has been replaced — though that’s kinda bad news, too, since he discovers it’s Herzog’s undead limb that’s been attached to his missing appendage. He then escapes from the hospital and his zombified arm kills a police officer with a Mercedes star. Martin soon realizes that Herzog is coming back for revenge. The gruesome Nazi Zombies are back to finish some 70-year-old business: completing Hitler’s order to wipe out an entire town in retaliation for Norwegian anti-Axis subterfuge. but Martin's not willing to die yet. En route, he gains variably competent allies in Glenn, a gay staffer at a local WWII museum, and the self-styled “Zombie Squad”, a trio of nerdy American siblings who've been waiting and preparing for the zombie invasion that popular media has taught them will surely come. Things improve a bit once Martin (whose zombie arm suddenly arbitrarily starts helping the good guys) manages to revive a troop of Russian POWs executed by the Nazis for the final battle against Colonel Herzog and his Nazi Zombie battalion.

Cast

Release

Dead Snow 2: Red vs. Dead had its world premiere at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival on 19 January 2014^[2] before being released in its home country of Norway on 12 February. The film screened at the Stanley Film Festival on 25 April 2014.

The film was released online on 7 October 2014 before receiving a limited theatrical release on 10 October.

Reception

Red vs. Dead received generally positive reviews. It has an 87% rating from Rotten Tomatoes based on 23 reviews for an average of 7/10.^[3] On Metacritic, the film has a 57/100 rating based on 9 critics, signifying "mixed or average reviews".^[4]