The corpse question.
I don't usually persist with subtitled films, although they are better than dubbed films because at least the sounds coming from the actor's mouths match their lip movements. In 'Dead Snow' that would have been less of a problem because many of the actors don't have lips.
It's billed as 'Nazi zombies in the snow' which I can't help thinking in a Bing Crosby croon, to match 'To hear sleigh bells in the snow'. I wish I had the poetic skills to write the rest of the song around that line.
The thing is, I don't think they are zombies at all. They are reanimated corpses, they are decaying, they eat human flesh, but they are not mindless. In fact, at least one of them is very intelligent and the rest behave like a military unit, not like the usual independently-wandering mob that characerises the true zombie.
Furthermore, they have a specific goal. They are not simply motivated by feeding. There's something else and I won't say what it is because that would spoil the ending.
Not one of their victims becomes a zombie. All those corpses are the original military unit who died in the mountains. They are not infectious and one of the human characters, in particular, will be disappointed to hear about that.
So I conclude that these are not zombies at all. They are revenants. They have their original souls and their mental faculties are mostly intact. The bodies have been reanimated after death, but not by a virus or a shaman. By the original soul attached to each body.
The difference matters, because if you are bitten by a revenant you don't become one.
There's an article due soon for AlienSkin. I think this might be worth thinking about further.
