Severance (DVD)

Advantages: It ends
Disadvantages: It does not end soon enough

...the back of Hostel's popularity. Severance is a dreadfully overlong story that's plot is so familiar, even to someone that does not watch horror movies. DRAB, is a good word. If Channel Five made movies, this would be it! The movie delivers nothing new, and frequently has unusual pauses like the movie is about to swing into a commercial break. No explanation is ever offered either, for pretty much anything. Why are they on this team building weekend? ...
...we all had similar views; Severance would appeal to someone who has lived in a cave, or to be more derogatory "the lowest common denominator" (I'll be interested to see the scathing comments added to this). Would I watch Severance again? I'd sooner masturbate with a nail filled glove, twice in fact! I can't advise anyone to watch this; though I'm sure some Danny Dyer completist will rush out and see this as if it were part of a shopping list of bad ... Read review

Advantages: Watchable, funny, and quite gory
Disadvantages: Slow in parts

I like British films. It sounds like I should be saying that in a self-help group…I’m Jayne and I like British films, and then some bloke with a beard and leather patches on his tweed jacket will congratulate me in making the first step towards recovery. Anyway, there we are, I like British flims and I like Danny Dyer. Yes, he’s a cockney wide-boy who plays a similar character in almost every film he’s been in, including The Football Factory and ...
...actor. I had high expectations of this film. It was billed as Deliverance meets The Office, and while it didn’t quite live up to these expectations, it was, as Barrymore would say, “Alwight”. The film was directed by Chistopher Smith, and you have to admire the way that comedy (and there are some very funny lines courtesy of Dyer) has been worked into what is, as times, a scary and gruesome film. This film has all the ingredients of a good horror ... Read review

Advantages: Good black British humour
Disadvantages: Special effects are sometimes too realistic!

A team of workers for a weapons company are sent on a team-building course in Hungary. On arrival at a lodge in the middle of a forest, they are slightly freaked to find that, far from being the luxury accommodation they were expecting, they have to stay in a creepy building with just a few basic facilities. Things take a turn for the worse the next day when two of them find their coach driver dead and another one loses his leg to a bear trap - one ...
...the coach, they crash and are forced to face the fact that someone doesn't want them to go...alive, that is. But who is trying to kill them, and why? Will any of them escape alive? As a team of seven, it is would be very difficult to mention the performance of some of them and not the others, so bear with me while I go through them. As team leader, Richard, Tim McInnery is one of my favourite characters. I've loved his acting since the Blackadder ... Read review

Advantages: funny, light-hearted, good SFX, Tim Mcinnery is good, solid direction
Disadvantages: pretty formulaic

Released in 2006, Severance is a British-made horror comedy in which a group of office workers working for a big defence company specialising in military hardware go on a corporate team-building trip via coach to a remote location in the Hungarian mountains. They end up taking a wrong turn however, and find themselves being mercilessly hunted down and killed one-by-one by a group of deranged and heavily armed Russian war criminals. The film contains ...
...Severance is hardly the funniest or most original horror film out there, but with a decent cast, amusing story and good, over-the-top SFX it remains entertaining throughout and is well worth a watch. Summary: A entertaining horror-comedy that will appeal to fans of Shaun of the Dead ... Read review

Advantages: Danny Dyer, funny, good cast
Disadvantages: weak plot, predictacble

This is a review of the film only. I this was one of my choices from the dvd subscription I have. Synopsis Working nine to five is a real killer, but when you work for Palisade Defence, team-building holidays can be even worse. Seven colleagues find themselves faced with the chop when their corporate weekend is sabotaged by a deadly enemy. Forget office politics, only the smartest will survive this office outing. Story Seven colleagues (Harris, ...
...Palisade Defence ( a weapons company) are on a team building exercise, on their way to there destination (a luxury lodge in the Hungarian Forest) a tree blocks their path and the coach driver refuses to take them by an alternative route. They team get off the coach as the only way of getting there now is on foot.. When they reach the lodge it's anything but luxurious and they suspect they may have the wrong place especially as George (the owner of ... Read review

Advantages: silly humour
Disadvantages: silly humour, overly gory, not the spoof its trying to be

...Bargain Tuesday is a great thing at Cineworld, £4.20 to watch any film that would cost you an alarming £7-odd quid at the weekend. This week, I went with my boyfriend to watch Severance, a new British Comedy Horror film by Chistopher Smith, who previously wrote and directed Creep. A group of peeps working for a weapons distributor are on a coach in Hungary travelling to a luxury lodge owned by their employer, who has sent them there on a team building weekend. There's overenthusiatic uber-geek Gordon, wideboy Steve, sexy American Maggie, prim and proper Jill, public school playboy Harris and Billy, the clever quiet one. The group is led by stubborn Brent-esque manager Richard. They are travelling towards the lodge when the driver stops abruptly as he finds a tree blocking the road. Richard tries to use his management prowess to... Read review

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Advantages: Snappy direction, scripting and funny performances
Disadvantages: Won't be everyone's cup of tea

...A group of businesspeople from an arms company set off into the Hungarian woods for a weekend of corporate team building exercises. Soon they are lost in the forest and the coach driver's disappeared with their only means of escape. But their games of paintball take a turn for the worse when it becomes apparent that they aren't alone in the forest and their opponent is playing war games for real. With night falling and the unseen enemy closing in, how will they survive? "Severance" has everything "Creep" director Christopher Smith's debut lacked; humour, real scares, decent actors and characters you can actually care about. It is the best British horror comedy (not that there are that many of them) since "Shaun of the Dead". Smith seems to have learnt an awful lot since his first movie and puts everything into practise in his... Read review

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Advantages: A couple of funny moments
Disadvantages: Only a couple of funny moments.

...Severance, the latest brit flick comedy/thriller/horror to hit our screens, has been described as a cross between 'The office' and 'Deliverance'. A comedy horror to follow on from the mega successes of Dog Soldiers and Shaun of The Dead is what Severance wants to be while sadly all it manages to do is to be a pale imitation of the two. While the idea behind it is not too bad it is clichéd as hell and borrows from so many other films that it never really manages to form an identity of its own. I was looking forward to this, the trailer and the press reviews made it sound as if it would be a very good mix of genres and would live up to my expectations. For me though the story did not have enough shocks to be a horror, enough thrills to be a thriller or enough comic moments to be a comedy! It is hard to pull off a good comedy horror... Read review

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