Europe Endless - Horror: Dead Snow (Dir Tommy Wirkola, 1h31m, 2009)
Horror is a universal language in cinema: like romance, it crosses language, cultural, and continental barriers - we love to be scared as much as we love...love. If there is a cinematic lingua franca, it may well be in the fears, and hopes, that these two genres represent - it's easy to understand why Nosferatu, Les Diaboliques, and Suspiria , scared German, French and Italian audiences, as much as they scare me, and, I must presume, my readers who've joined me in watching these films. However, it's easy to get somewhat snobbish about horror; A24's recent spate of high concept, mid budget work, including films I've covered here, have made it easy to consider horror an auteur's genre rather than one they share with endless sequels, cheap thrill merchants, and people making gory, silly, shlock - the latter I mean as a compliment. In our five months across Europe we have in essence, perused the gallery, the best these respective nations can offer, rather than...
