Review: Colder than Hell eh?
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 9, 2013
I have become totally sucked into The Dead Man series and I am not even close to being a horror fan. Maybe it is because they have brought in so many good writers, most of them not from the horror genre and this has really opened it up for fans of fast food entertainment literature like myself. What the hell, I have cleaned up my diet and eating habits, why not reward myself with some cholesterol for the mind? Anthony Neil Smith never has any difficulty filling that menu. His style is more internal than the other writers in the series, but once you catch onto his unique rhythm you settle right into the dish he is serving. And like the last few writers ahead of him he has been following the beat of earlier works and adding his stock to the general mythology of the piece. The result was a wild hell bound ride through a phalanx of steamy zombies in the snowbound wastes of Fargoland. Only one thing missing, where were the funny Canadian-like accents that made Fargo so popular up here north of the border? I mean Frances McDormand was kind of like the Swedish Chef for us.