It all started with coffee and pie after the fantastically campy Norwegian horror film "Dod Sno"- (Dead Snow)- featuring a group of med students winter vacationing in Norway who find themselves fighting Nazi Zombies looking for their stolen gold. Allow me to repeat...NAZI ZOMBIES and SNOW. Does it get any better? Our post-film debate spawned the newest challenge- choose the 10 best American snow films. Thus- here are Alone In the Dark's ten greatest films incorporating the best use of snow. Now before the comments start, I enforced a strict rule that winter/snow must make up the majority of the film. There were plenty of GREAT films with sparse snow scenes (Citizen Kane, Groundhog Day, Empire Strikes Back) and plenty of mediocre films with great use of snow (Die Hard 2, Cliffhanger and 30 Days of Night). These are 10 Great Films in which snow might just well be considered not only a backdrop- but a minor character. Pull up your parka and enjoy.
#1. Fargo
The best picture of 1996 and perhaps the best snow picture ever made with perhaps the greatest modern American feminist heroine of all time. Fargo is dark, daring, and deliciously dangerous. Satirically icy and macabre, the Coen Brothers take a snow day in the Scandinavian auteur tradition to deftly deconstruct the devolution of the American value system. Is snow the new rain in Red-state Neo-Noir? Yah, you betcha!
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