Medical students, on vacation in the Norwegian mountains, run afoul of an army of foul, decaying Nazi zombies bent on retrieving a box holding precious jewels and gold doubloons. The plot's as simple as that as outrageous gore is gratuitous and plentiful with lots of bodies being torn into and apart. Closer in spirit to Evil Dead(..lots of homages to the first two films, particularly the second one, and both are even mentioned in the dialogue by a movie nerd)than Night of the Living Dead, director Tommy Wirkola and his film-making team choose a breathtaking location to set this ultra-violent splatter movie. The Nazi zombies are a ghastly breed, their flesh rotted to a vast degree, suited in deteriorated uniforms and helmets that are worse for wear. Wirkola takes about twenty or so minutes to establish who the characters are and then turns the zombies loose upon them, with lots of gaping, blood gushing wounds, chainsaw and ax damage, with even a face split open, not to mention violence involving intestines(..the highlight for gore aficionados would have to be the stitching of an open neck wound using a fishing hook!). CGI is noticeable, but there are enough practical effects to satisfy purists, I believe. While the film goes completely over-the-top in the department of relentless gruesome carnage, there are some instances of pure mean-spiritedness(..such as the accidental stabbing as one of our heroes is so caught up in continuously assaulting a zombie, he turns and impales his own girlfriend, and Wirkola allows this to progress as he watches her choke and gag on her own blood and it spurts out!)to be seen as well. Funniest scene might be when one of our heroines is up in a tree hiding from two zombies looking around, her position given up by a squawking bird(..that or the never-tiresome "decapitated head gag" where one of the girls thinks her pal is peering from outside the window when in actuality a zombie soldier is holding up her head!). Hilarity ensues including how an attempt at hurling a Molotov cocktail towards the zombies results in the setting afire of the cabin removing their own place of refuge..as well as how a snowmobile can pulverize zombies. Eyes are gouged with sticks and faces / heads are crushed under foot. Strong stomachs required. A must see for zombie fanatics.