Hadrina The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Lidia Draper Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

Mehdi Hoffman There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.

Dana An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

amesmonde Five contract workers have taken on the task of tracking a huge old sanatorium for hazardous waste before demolishing. However things go bump in the night as the enormous building has much darker secrets and possible paranormal activity.Like with the recent Spanish horror revival director Pål Øie does the same for Norwegian filmmaking offering a well-made filmactic feel is which sells the plausibility, thanks to the acting and creepy location, the music adds tension. As the characters are picked off one by one the premise is interesting even though the story beats, shadows in the dim corridors, figures on camera, jump scares etc are what we've seen before Pål Øie's execution and serious tone makes it worth watching the scares play out. There's a few bodies, blood, gore, twists and turns, doctors and WWII elements.Overall, better than the abundance of bad acted English language slasher and horror films doing the rounds at the moment. Recommend.

WisdomsHammer This movie takes quite a while to get going and when it finally wraps up, you're left with more questions than answers. It's about a team of people who go into an old asylum building to assess it for hazardous materials. Or something. A sort of librarian goes with them to grab any records that might be worth keeping. They end up being the worst hide and seek players ever in a cat and mouse game between them and an unknown adversary. The kinds of decisions most of these characters make throughout the course of the movie will leave you with little sympathy for them. I found myself hoping they would die - especially the team leader. I did find it scary, creepy, and suspenseful, and I thought it was well shot and performed. I would have liked more of an explanation for what was happening and why, but if the intention was for us to be just as in the dark as the people in the movie, I sort of get it. But I didn't like it. I've seen other reviewers saying that this ripped off Session 9, and I can see why they said that, but I wasn't thinking of Session 9 while watching this. Session 9 was definitely better, though. See that instead.

daaleng92 I had such hopes for this film. I've seen the first film, and Pål Øye is a great director, but this movie really had too many strings to attach.You don't need to see the first film to understand the second one, but there are some easter eggs from the first movie (however I don't feel they fit well into this story).I'll start off with the positive things: The visual and overall feel is good, and you never feel like it's a low budget movie. Good color grading and lighting. Also the sound design is really good, and keeps you on the edge for the most of the time, but that's about everything that is good in this movie.As for the negative parts, there are so many things. The characters did a OK job - Anders and Ellen did good most of the time, but as with many Norwegian films, you feel like they are reading lines from a script - which is extremely annoying. Also I felt some of the actors didn't act at all when they spoke. The plot has so many holes, and unexplained scenarios, and the ending is... well I'm not going to say anything about it - because it's so cliché and bad. I also don't understand 30% of the film, because you are introduced to so many stories, but only a small portion of them are explained. The editing tend to break the mood sometimes, because some of the transitions breaks out of the whole universe, making it look like they were testing a modern way of going from one scene to another, which didn't work at all, and you begin to feel the need to laugh because it's so stupid. There's also a cheesy part that makes it even more hilariously dumb, but you will understand what I mean when I say the color "red" has a symbolic meaning throughout the whole film.Would I recommend this movie if you're bored and just want to see a horror film set in an old mental institution? I don't know. I feel like you really need to enter this universe with low expectations, because we were 12 people watching it, and none of us liked it.

Flow Nothing to do with Villmark 1 !! They barely managed to make a small and quite insignificant connection to it, but that's all, just so they can take advantage of the name and get some attention.If you read the plot, you'll realize you know the movie, you've seen it before, many times and this right here brings nothing new. It's a horror movie in an old building, apparently abandoned but not quite, where people start to get missing or even...dead!And this is all. From head to toes, nothing more than what so many other similar productions brought on screen so many times before. Can't believe I was excited to see this. Anyway, the movie itself, as a stand alone is still a weak production in my opinion. I will not recommend it.Cheers!