"It's Satan's arm. It's a long story."

I'm so excited, mortals. The Louisville Zombie Walk is just a shade over a week away, this is my 150th review, and I've got a very special zombie movie to put you in the mood, so let's get straight to it.

This week's Thursday Thriller is Dead Snow 2: Red vs. Dead.

You remember the first Dead Snow, right? It was that 2009 Norwegian homage to horrors past, especially Evil Dead, where the Nazi zombies kill a bunch of young folks on a skiing trip who found the accursed Nazi gold. The blood and guts really flew in that one, remember?

Well, Dead Snow 2 picks up right where the first one left off.

If you recall, Martin (Vegar Hoel) had to chainsaw his arm off in true Evil Dead fashion. The last survivor, he flees the Nazis in a car, but the zombie leader Herzog (Orjan Gamst) hangs on to the side and snatches and grabs at Martin, desperate to get that last gold coin. Martin uses an oncoming tractor-trailer to peel Herzog off, but the zombie's arm, torn from its body, plops into the passenger seat.  Martin discards the last coin, passes out and crashes.

He awakens in the hospital, the chief suspect in his friends' murders. It seems the medics were confused about whose arm was still in the car and a surgeon has attached Herzog's arm to Martin's body.

Martin has trouble controlling the arm at first. It helps him escape from the hospital, but it murders a child in the process. It also kills a police officer by using the hood ornament off a Mercedes as a shuriken.  Martin notifies a group of American experts called The Zombie Squad about the Nazis.

Meanwhile, the Nazis are still on a killing spree. They remember they had a mission to destroy a town that they hadn't completed. Hitler himself had given the order.

The Nazi zombies kill everyone in sight for pretty much the whole movie. They don't their guns, so they have to use knives, hammers, hatchets, everything but the kitchen sink. The bathroom sink is another story.

They raid a World War II museum, tear a bus full of tourists to pieces and use one's intestines as a siphon to fill up the old tank parked outside.

As Martin gains more control over the zombie arm, he finds he can punch so hard it makes someone's heads explode. It can also raise the dead and bind the zombie to him as his slave. The Zombie Squad leader Daniel (Martin Starr) pursuades him he has to go raise an army of dead Russian soldiers buried nearby to defeat the Nazi scourge.

Should you watch this 2014 action/comedy splatter fest by director Tommy Wirkola?

To quote Martin when the army of Russian undead rise from their graves and call him master: "Fuck yeah!"

Dead Snow 2 streams in English on Amazon Prime.