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Dead Snow 2: Red vs. Dead

2014· article· en· W153221072 on OpenAlexaffabout
Jodi McDavid

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Religion & Film · 2014
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicGothic Literature and Media Analysis
Canadian institutionsCape Breton University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsFolkloreCultJudaismMidnightArtCharacter (mathematics)Dead seaArt historyHistoryReligious studiesLiteratureAncient historyArchaeologyPhilosophy
DOInot available

Abstract

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This is a film review of Dead Snow 2: Red vs. Dead (2014), directed by Tommy Wirkola. Author Notes Jodi McDavid is an instructor in Folklore and Gender & Women’s Studies at Cape Breton University. She earned her BA at St. Thomas University (New Brunswick) and her MA and PhD from Memorial University of Newfoundland. Her PhD dissertation was on anticlericalism in folk and popular culture. Her current research interests include vernacular religion, the folklore and folklife of children and adolescents, and gender and women’s studies. This sundance film festival review is available in Journal of Religion & Film: http://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/jrf/vol18/iss1/27 Dead Snow 2: Red vs. Dead (2014) directed by Tommy Wirkola Midnight Picking up where Dead Snow left off, Dead Snow 2 adds another cult film to the zombie genre. The original film was noted for its use of Nazi who appeared in the present day—once teenagers uncovered their horde of Jewish gold, of course. Although the first installment takes place in a rural atmosphere, the second moves the action into more urban settings, and the main character meets a whole group of new friends. The original film was filled with gore, as is the second. Neither film is in the torture porn category of horror, but would more appropriately be categorized as B slasher films. One might suspect that religion would have little to do with this film, however, there are a number of taboos that are broken, and a fair number of them have to do with religion. When the German zombies begin to create more zombies, their first convert is a lecherous Priest. The zombies are created through resurrection, and there is a blatant disregard for the body and natural law. Other taboos are broken; our hero inadvertently kills a young boy in a tragic (although somewhat hilarious) manner. The last taboo of the film is too central to the film to discuss. But it involves a churchyard. And I will leave it at that.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.539
Threshold uncertainty score0.269

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.010
GPT teacher head0.276
Teacher spread0.266 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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