Villmark Asylum

An abandoned sanatorium is decaying in a remote forest in the mountains, where an older janitor makes sure that people or animals do not enter the dangerous building. Five contract workers have taken the job of cleansing the massive building from toxins before it is to be demolished. They have to go through over 300 rooms and several kilometres of pipelines in three days. Water starts flooding out of the old pipes making their work more difficult, and an attempt to close the water leads them down to a dark basement labyrinth.

• Ellen Dorrit Petersen as Live
• Anders Baasmo as Ole
• Tomas Norström as Frank
• Baard Owe as Karl
• Mads Sjøgård Pettersen as Even

The movie is a standalone sequel to Dark Woods (Villmark in Norwegian) from 2003, with a different cast and separate story.{{cite news|url=https://rushprint.no/2014/11/villmark-2-er-en-fortsettelse-men-det-er-ikke-samme-gjengen-som-reiser-tilbake/|title=– "Villmark 2" er en fortsettelse, men det er ikke samme gjengen som reiser tilbake|date=3 November 2014|work=Rushprint|language=no}}

The film was set in the former Lyster Sanatorium or Harastølen.{{cite news|url=https://www.nrk.no/mr/baasmo-christiansen_-_-mye-lidelse-i-veggene-1.12584114|title=Baasmo Christiansen: – Mye lidelse i veggene|work=NRK|first1=Magnus|last1=Gamlem|first2=Leiv-Erik|last2=Bondevik|date=2 October 2015|language=no}} The director Pål Øie was inspired to create the film by reading about plans to demolish the defunct sanatorium.{{cite news|url=https://www.bt.no/kultur/i/LP694/villmark-2-blir-ikke-for-pyser|title="Villmark 2" blir ikke for pyser|first=Hanne Louise|last=Åkernes|work=Bergens Tidende|date=28 March 2015|language=no}}{{cite news|url=https://www.dagbladet.no/kultur/her-er-de-forste-bildene-fra-villmark-2-settet/62998510|title=Her er de første bildene fra "Villmark 2"-settet|work=Dagbladet|first=Ann Kristin|last=Andreassen|date=9 January 2013|language=no}}

A mobile game based on the film, titled Villmark Sanatoriet, was developed by TurboTape Games.{{cite news|url=https://www.bt.no/kultur/i/bLGrg/millionene-yngler-for-lokal-filmsatsing|title=Millionene yngler for lokal filmsatsing|work=Bergens Tidende|first=Frank|last=Johnsen|date=19 October 2015|language=no}}

May Synnøve Rogne of Aftenposten describes the movie as an "effective nightmare", stating that while not necessarily adding to the horror genre, the movie succeeds in its most important point, to be at times "really scary".{{cite news|url=https://www.aftenposten.no/oslo/byliv/i/baml/villmark-2-effektivt-mareritt|title="Villmark 2:" Effektivt mareritt|date=6 October 2015|work=Aftenposten|first=May Synnøve |last=Rogne|language=no}} Jon Selås of Verdens Gang also gave the movie a good review, praising its actors and form of the horror genre.{{cite news|url=https://www.vg.no/rampelys/film/i/ndR6B/filmanmeldelse-villmark-2|title=Filmanmeldelse: "Villmark 2"|date=5 October 2015|work=Verdens Gang|first=Jon|last=Selås|language=no}} Aksel Kielland in Dagbladet said the film was "visually intelligent but far less smart in terms of plot and theme".{{cite news|url=https://www.dagbladet.no/kultur/anmeldelse-villmark-2/60544411|title=Anmeldelse: "Villmark 2"|work=Dagbladet|first=Aksel|last=Kielland|date=8 October 2015|language=no}}

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• [https://www.filmdienst.de/film/details/551082/villmark-asylum Filmdienst]

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