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2 Minute Movie Reviews: Nobody Sleeps in the Woods Tonight 2 (2021)
Trying to judge a work of international entertainment is always difficult for me. I don’t want to be too hard on it given that I might not be getting the best translation or perhaps they had a problem finding decent voice actors to do the various characters so they don’t sound quite right or can’t really act only translate the script they are given to read. There is also the matter of the culture that the film is coming from, it’s possible that something in their culture is just so different that it makes the media that they create either not easily understandable or perhaps just too foreign to the average viewer outside of their own culture. This can manifest in anything from customs to cultural in-jokes. With all of that said, I have to say that Nobody Sleeps in the Woods Tonight 2 is one the worst movies I’ve seen this year.
The first movie Nobody Sleeps in the Woods Tonight was a good, if perhaps a bit overwrought homage to American Slasher films. But this one is a terrible homage to movies like the Evil Dead. The jokes they made might have been funny in Polish. But translated absolutely none of them landed.
The overall story picks up right where the first movie left off but this time with the main character being Adas, a rookie policeman who has a hero complex. He is not likable, and I was actively hoping that he would be the first to go once all the killing started. Adas’s boss goes back to the slasher house in hopes of getting the real story from Zosia only to be killed by her after she too gets infected by the meteor that infected the twins in the first movie. This transformation is strange because not only don’t we see it but the master or makeup she is using also makes her hair blonde. I was starting to wonder if it was even the same actress after a while. Eventually, Adas too gets infected, and they go about terrorizing the remaining police coming after them. This too comes off pretty cheaply and Zosia for some reason needs to give us an exposition dump rather than just continuing with the movie.
This should have been an hour-long maybe, but they stretch it to an agonizing hour and a half. Which I was thoroughly bored throughout. I didn’t love the first movie, but at least it was an interesting cultural take on the slasher movie genre. This movie just screams of a low-budget campy mess that really doesn’t have any redeeming features. Even if you liked the first movie stay away from this one.
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