That is the impact of this motion picture and the nightmarish legacy it leaves one with is a price well worth paying. Those who remained were of course rewarded with the same explosively hellish visions they will find haunting them forever. The humor used by Wirkola so ingeniously to show some mercy to his audience only works to some extent and then only with those truly devoted to cinema. Even festival attendees were seen to leave the theater, overwhelmed by what the tsunami of truth the director unleashed upon them. The scope is larger and in effect the tension and stark realism is magnified at least five fold. The horror as well is still all too real and the terror even more unrelenting in intensity. Although now Wirkola's cinematic achievement approaches more epic proportions, none of the intimacy or character development that distinguished the first Dead Snow is diminished. Wirkola would never allow such blasphemy. Here they embraced a work that used Hollywood backing to enhance rather than to corrupt the vision of both the director and script. Of course, this was a cinema educated group that appreciate genius and find the usual Hollywood junk repulsive. And been so engulfed in cheers and applause as the closing credits roll.
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