Severance

May. 19,2006      R
Rating:
6.4
Trailer Synopsis Cast

Members of the Palisades Defense Corp. sales group arrive in Europe for a team-building exercise. A fallen tree blocks the route, and they must hike to their destination. However, a psychotic killer lurks in the woods, and he has a horrible fate in mind for each of the co-workers.

Danny Dyer as  Steve
Laura Harris as  Maggie
Tim McInnerny as  Richard
Toby Stephens as  Harris
Claudie Blakley as  Jill
Babou Ceesay as  Billy
Andy Nyman as  Gordon
David Gilliam as  George
Julianna Drajkó as  Olga
Judit Viktor as  Nadia

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Reviews

Cebalord
2006/05/19

Very best movie i ever watch

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Actuakers
2006/05/20

One of my all time favorites.

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Plustown
2006/05/21

A lot of perfectly good film show their cards early, establish a unique premise and let the audience explore a topic at a leisurely pace, without much in terms of surprise. this film is not one of those films.

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Matho
2006/05/22

The biggest problem with this movie is it’s a little better than you think it might be, which somehow makes it worse. As in, it takes itself a bit too seriously, which makes most of the movie feel kind of dull.

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GL84
2006/05/23

Heading out into the wilderness, members of a corporate team- building retreat in the forest come across a group of deranged hillsmen who doesn't take kindly to their being there and begin to kill them off, forcing the group to work together to get out alive.This here was quite the fun and enjoyable slasher effort. One of the main positives here is the fact that there's plenty of spectacular action throughout here that generates a huge amount of interest here with this one having some absolutely crazy scenes here. The first of the original scenes here is the revelation sequence in black-and- white where they tell of the inmates' revolt and overthrow the society is quite fun, and that carries off into the big paintball battle here which is quite enjoyable with the fine amount of gun-play action and diving amongst the trees which in fact sets up the greatest part of the film where they realize they're being stalked by the killer in the woods when they come face-to-face with the traps set up around them. That leads into the film's best part here as the remaining parts of the film include plenty of utterly fantastic stalking and action scenes throughout the final half which gives that part of the film quite the impressive pacing. This comes into play here with the dynamic crash that strands them in the woods and leads to some great stalking, the house barricading where they learn the killer can access them in the underground tunnels which features some spectacular encounters in the rooms inside which carry on into the great chases at the secluded lodge and finally into the abandoned town that offers up plenty of fun as the battle with the flamethrower and the brawling gives this the kind of action that really works here. Alongside the really fun and graphic gore from the kills and the chilling forest setting, these here give this one quite the grand amount of positives as there's not a lot of flaws here. Strangely, this one was marketed as a horror-comedy, and it wasn't that funny at all. In fact, remove one character completely and this could've easily been a straightforward slasher with a few brief moments of levity to break up the tension. This one works so well as a brutal, intense slasher that not only does it highlight how lame that really is it feels out-of-place here since the final half is played deadly serious. A lot of the jokes and gags are rather weak and somewhat stupid, as there's the insipid inserts of the one member jumping around on the diving board a running gag at the dinner table shouldn't have been there. Just, as a fall-down funny horror-comedy, it wasn't all that great, even though some of it was pretty funny. Likewise, the other flaw here is the group's motivation for killing which seems like a joke motivation for starting a rampage and doesn't seem like a truly plausible explanation for anything to occur. All together these here hold this one down slightly against the positives.Rated R: Extreme Graphic Language, Graphic Violence, Nudity and drug use.

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Traeh Chambers
2006/05/24

I personally am not usually a fan of horror-comedy films and especially British horror movies as all apart from a select few are terrible in my opinion. Severance is a refreshing take on the horror-comedy genre and has a sublime combination of essential elements of horror such as gore, jump scares, unpredictability and well done humour which has genuine laughable moments and made me root for certain characters. The majority of the cast's acting is strong and characters can be related to which allows you to connect with the film. The plot is somewhat different than the obligatory 'people in a cabin in the woods' that you might expect and has a relatively uplifting ending.

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KineticSeoul
2006/05/25

This was the first Christopher Smith movie I seen when it first came out and for the most part I thoroughly enjoyed it. This is a comedic/horror movie and although I didn't particularly find the movie all that funny or scary it was for some reason pretty entertaining. The build up is sort of long with the characters and the climax isn't anything amazing. But I never found this movie to be boring or anything like that despite the story not being all that great, the way it's directed makes the movie enjoyable. The characters get killed off as soon as they start to stand out in a quick manner which is one of it's flaws. And the antagonist or killers first start out a bit intimidating but soon just comes off incompetent. Maybe it was to give a surviving chance to the goofy characters in this movie. The thing is this movie doesn't try to be anything more than what it is. And what it is, is a enjoyable straight to DVD flick that is especially fun to watch with a group of friends. Not one of the best in this type of genre, but it's a entertaining movie never the less despite it's flaws.6.5/10

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Rob_Taylor
2006/05/26

It's a fairly entertaining film, but it falls well short of its stated aim of being the next "Shaun of the Dead". I'm not sure whether that's down to the writer or the director.In short, the film wants to be a comedy horror, in the vein of Shaun of the Dead, but it fails at this task utterly. It fails because , as far as I could tell, it forgets one thing.The horror has to be camp and somewhat unbelievable - cartoonish, if you will.Severance instead presents its horror as gory and realistic, which is fine in a horror film, but not in a horror-comedy. As a result of the grim and realistic violence portrayed, the comedy comes across as a weak second best. An also-ran of movie traits.Not that the comedy is very good. It's weak, making you chuckle a bit here and there, but you find it difficult to laugh properly because of the grim horror that either precedes or follows it.The actors do their best with the script but they are overwhelmed, frankly. Their characters are pretty much all unlikeable for one reason or another and its difficult to feel any kind of connection to any one of them, especially the pair you are supposed to connect with.So, as a comedy-horror it's a failure. But it is entertaining if you forget the comedy aspect and treat it as a simple horror story. Then it becomes more palatable, though still nothing special.If there's nothing better on and you're particularly bored, then give it a go. Just don't believe the hype.

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