Kowlaski follows up his hit Polish Netflix slasher film with this speedy sequel that very much sticks to the horror genre but veers off into an unexpectedly different direction. Picking up the morning after the first film's events in a rundown backwater police station where the killers and the Final Girl are locked in the cells... and an unexpected (and inexplicable) initiating event starts another night of carnage. It tries very hard to be cool and funny, but the sequel somewhat lacks the knowing energy of the original film. The first half-hour is fairly turgid set-up, the second act contains some signature lively gore-gags, but the third act then goes into very unexpected territory that is quite interesting if rather odd. The uneven script, stop-start pacing and often lacklustre performances mean that Nobody Sleeps...2 is not a wholly successful film by any means, but it does at least try to do something a little different from the generic tropes of the first film.
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