| Villmark Asylum | |
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| Directed by | Pål Øie[1] |
| Written by | Kjersti Helen Rasmussen, Pål Øie[1] |
| Starring | Ellen Dorrit Petersen, Anders Baasmo, Tomas Norström, Baard Owe, Mads Sjøgård Pettersen[1] |
| Cinematography | Sjur Aarthun[1] |
| Music by | Trond Bjerknes, Roy Westad[1] |
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Running time | 94 minutes |
| Country | Norway |
| Language | Norwegian |
Villmark Asylum, originally titled Villmark 2, is a Norwegian horror movie released in 2015. The movie was released to an American audience through Amazon Prime in 2018.[2]
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.
The movie is a sequel to Dark Woods (Villmark in Norwegian) from 2003, but with a different cast and separate story.[3]
It was filmed and set in the former Luster Sanatorium or Harastølen.[2]
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".[4] Jon Selås of Verdens Gang also gave the movie a good review, praising its actors and form of the horror genre.[5]