This is the first shocker in ages where you actually care about what happens to the victims.
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09/16/06
Severance (2007)
65 %
Reviews Counted: 82 Fresh: 53 Rotten:29 Average Rating: 6.1/10
Consensus:
A twisted and bloody spoof on office life, Severance nicely balances comedy and nasty horror.
Rated: 15
Runtime: 90 mins
Theatrical Release: 25-08-2006
Synopsis: A team-building exercise goes horribly wrong in this horror comedy, where HOSTEL meets OFFICE SPACE. A group of Brits (and a single, sexy American blonde played by Laura Harris of DEAD LIKE ME) travels through the forests of Hungary to a remote lodge in order to mix business with pleasure. Led... [More]
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Starring: Danny Dyer, Laura Harris, Tim McInnerny, Toby Stephens, Claudie Blakely
Reviews
Full of wonderful set-pieces of both comedy and horror, Severance is a remarkable success...
09/16/06
mixing comedy with horror's never an easy business, but time and again Severance cuts it.
09/16/06
Top Critic
[Director Christopher Smith] describes the film as The Office meets Deliverance and as such, he gets the tone exactly right, balancing some genuinely nasty and shocking scenes with moments of black humour.
09/16/06
Blending fierce horror and sly humour, Christopher Smith’s confident follow-up to the more generic Creep marks a quantum leap forward for the young British filmmaker.
09/16/06
Top Critic
It is being billed as 'Deliverance meets The Office' -- a tellingly misleading description.
09/16/06
Top Critic
An entertaining mix of raucous humour and outrageous gore. Plus an intriguingly strong (and unsubtle) political message.
09/16/06
Aiming for an admirably lofty target, it's a case of close but no cigar. It's a long way from bad, but the wildly uneven tone sees it fall equally far from greatness.
09/16/06
Top Critic
Severance is a story of terrible things that couldn't have happened to funnier people.
03/06/08
Sitting through its increasingly sluggish pace feels like, well, work.
10/03/07
For the most part, the scary parts are the scary parts, the funny parts are the funny parts, and never the twain meet.
09/12/07
The result is a cathartic hoot, relishing its own carefully doled out carnage.
08/11/07
Will surely make you laugh, but the guffaws are few and far between. That's hardly a caveat when you consider the statement made here, though...
07/13/07
The cast shows spark and gusto, especially Laura Harris as a vulnerable yet intrepid survivor type and Danny Dyer as a bent druggie who straightens out long enough to fight back.
06/08/07
So there's still a smart office-horror movie left to be made. In the meantime, Severance is just another paycheck.
06/08/07
Like the Britain of Tony Blair, it's neither bloody awful nor bloody great. Which isn't to say, rest assured, that there isn't plenty of blood.
06/08/07
[Smith] paces the gore too unevenly, leaving the cast standing around and griping for vast chunks of time. And the jokes ... are either too broad or too underplayed.
06/08/07
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