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.

Wow I never heard of this movie so I was pleasantly surprised. It's in German I think with English Subtitles, the script was fine not great but not cheesy. The Camera and directing was superb. I'll be going to see if part 1 was what this movie failed to pull off. I mean it was the best set up for a scary movie I think so far i've seen this year in 2016 and this movie released in 2015. I mean it showed so many different elements of the horror in this movie and it was shown very early in the movie. animals, kids,old people not to give too much away I was very impressed and pretty creeped out for the first half of the movie and it was a pretty long movie just under 2hrs & 15 minutes not saying I have a short attention span but I think it was a little drawn out and I thinking the end it just didn't add up enough and a lot of the characters purposes were not explained enough to give the movie good characterization which kind of spoiled the scary Ness at the end but I guess it was worth the watch didn't really surprise me at all so it definitely could of and should of been better. The cast was good actors and the women were attractive so I guess that helped. For a scary movie with subtitles I would recommend this and give a 6 out of 10 .. Creepy but don't over think it.

Ever since the appearance of mobile phones, horror-movie writers have had the headache of trying to neutralize the phone as a source of obvious and easy help for people threatened by psychopaths, demons or zombies. The by now pretty laughable "I have no signal" cop-out plot-device is the one most commonly used, so I will give this movie credit for at least trying something else, a new way to solve the fairly unsolvable phone dilemma.However, that "something else" is even dumber than not having a signal for no reason: it's UNWILLINGNESS to call for help! Yes, my dear readers (all five of you), the movie's sanitary team has opportunities – time and time again – to call the cops, yet they don't. The first time, it's Frank refusing to "endanger the business" by calling the cops. "How are we going to get any work done with cops crawling all over the place?" he says moronically, baffling every sane and/or intelligent viewer. But it's not really fictional Frank's fault; it's the writer who underwent a cheap lobotomy, probably performed by the same Nazi surgeons from this movie, before he undertook the – for his lobotomized self - impossible task of writing an intelligent, original script.But silly me. Why do I automatically assume that there was any intention to create something intelligent, let alone original? V2 is a collection of abandoned-building clichés we've all seen before, many times – and done much better than in this fairly lame Norwegian flick. Take any "old sanitarium in ruins" movie and in all likelihood it has all the same shticks as this one: abandoned gloomy rooms, mysterious basements, bizarre drawings on walls, little mutant children running through corridors, illegal human experiments, and other never-before-seen clichés.Going back to the infamous mobile phones, the second chance that presents itself to call the cops results in yet another mystifyingly dumb decision not to. This time it's the blond boss who decides that calling the police when faced with intruders and weird, illegal goings-on in a huge abandoned building is not a good idea. Third occasion? She leaves a worker behind – all alone – and tells him to call the cops only if she doesn't come back in 20 minutes. Predictably, he is the next in line to get axed by the bad guys. Literally every horror-film fan (even the most gullible ones with Alzheimer's) can predict that that phone-call simply wasn't going to ever happen, much less after those 20 minutes were up. The entire movie is predictable.Now, why would the boss of a CLEANING company want to "test the waters", and play detective rather than leave that to professionals? Because, somehow, the company she works for will crumble if she calls the cops: a logic all of its own, existing in a separate world from ours. To cut a long story a little shorter, we've got a team of utter imbeciles here. They get a plethora of hints that something extremely vile is going on, yet they continue. "Yeah, I mean sure, there are some kind of insane homeless serial killers lurking about, but let's try to finish our job here first, and THEN worry about them. Who knows, they might even not kill us all by the time we finish in 3 days." That's what this nonsense amounts to. And that's the main reason the film is idiotic. Suffice it to say, they find a half-dead man hanging on a ceiling – yet refuse to call the authorities for assistance. I was half-expecting them to get attacked by flying vampires and then say "no, flying vampires is really no reason to bother the police for".There are so many stupid decisions made by these moronic characters, and unrealistic moments. At one point there are three of them huddled in the building – knowing full-well by that point they're in extreme danger – yet what is their course of action? Do they perhaps LEAVE the building, as any sensible person would? Not really. In fact, the blonde female boss decides to leave her wounded, shocked, bewildered, totally helpless female worker alone while she chases the fat blond guy – who quite sensibly decided to make a run for it (and then predictably got punished for his "cowardice" but getting his ass whooped). Predictably, the abandoned female worker gets snatched by one of the building's numerous medically-trained zombies. The tendency for a group of in-danger humans to split up in individual campaigns in a maze-like object, rather than stay together, is one of the most annoying and least convincing horror-flick clichés of all times. I wish they'd finally write a script without that crap. But that's like expecting Sean Penn to win a Nobel Prize in Physics.

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.