Severance
2006 Directed by Christopher Smith
Synopsis
The Company Is Making Cutbacks
When weapons multi-national Palisade Defense reward their European sales division with a team-building weekend in the mountains of Eastern Europe, the team fight first amongst themselves, and later for survival against a group of war-crazed killers intent on revenge!
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I am a very firm believer that the horror-comedy is quite possibly the hardest genre (or mashing together of two genres) of film to do really well. Very few films have managed to strike the balance that make them funny and unsettling at the same time, and just as few have managed to just be funny with a horror backdrop.
I think it's because the two genres are so diametrically opposite, but there are a couple of ways you can approach it and make it successful. You can lean heavily towards the comedy and have the horror as just a base-point - Gremlins and Ghostbusters would spring to mind first for me. For me, though, that's the easy option. Trying…
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If The Office turned into a slasher film, you'd get this.
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I've seen five horrors so far this October and none of them have scared me or offered too much suspense. This one's no different but it's reasonably enjoyable none the less, however the film's main achievement is making Danny Dyer seem quite likeable for a change. Now that is scary.
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You know what, fuck David Cameron. Fuck David Cameron and fuck his decision to defund the UK Film Council. I mean come on, what other organisation would ever fund a film in which Danny Dyer and Captain Darling from Blackadder Goes Forth go on a team-building exercise for a weapons manufacturer in Eastern Europe, only to end up the mice in a vicious game of cat-and-mouse with some brutal savages from the Cold War?
I’m not going to say much more than that. This film doesn’t take itself remotely seriously and therefore neither will I. If you’re looking for 90-minutes of quality entertainment with lashings of gore and some immature but amusing slapstick humour then you really can’t go far wrong with Severance. The acting is atrocious, the plot is ludicrous and Danny Dyer is a pain in the arse but it doesn’t matter, I still liked it. And that’s all that matters at the end of the day.
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The Office meets Hostel by way of Shaun Of The Dead. I laughed, I squirmed with disgust, & a few times I did both at once.
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A coach load of workers for multinational arms manufacturer end a European sales tour with a trip to a remote Lodge in Eastern Europe for a team-building weekend. Led by an ineffectual and officious manager (Blackadder’s Tim McInnery) the slasher-fodder include a smart American girl, an obsequious office safety officer, an Oxbridge know-it-all, an African worker constantly condescended to by his bosses, a slightly mousy girl who favours developing non-lethal weapons, and a permanently stoned wide boy with a pharmacy in his rucksack.
An opening slaughter sequence establishes that the woods are inhabited by a vicious killer/killers who will stalk the rapidly dwindling group in classic Ten Little Indians fashion (only Agatha Christie was not so fond of flamethrowers). Heads…
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loved the plane scene
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Jolly fun British slasher.
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A sale/marketing team for a weapons manufacturer go on a team building weekend at a forest lodge in Hungary. The main road is obstructed and the coach driver refuses to take the detour. Undeterred the team leader (played in splendidly cringe-worthy turn by Tim McInnerny) decides they should walk there. The team, comprise of the usual assortment (smug guy, nerdy girl, black guy, over-enthusiastic guy, hot girl and slacker-guy) arrive at a ramshackle lodge with no one there. Soon it becomes apparent this is most definitely NOT their lodge and they are NOT alone and it becomes a battle of survival....
As I said I really enjoyed it. A horror comedy that's not totally obvious. Surprisingly gory in parts but…
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Kauhu-trilleri-splatteri kevennettynä paskoilla vitseillä. Hills Have Eyes meets Harper’s Island. Katselutuskaa helpottaa paikalliset horot sivurooleissa. Naiskatsojille tarjolla on Danny Dyerin paljas hanuri.
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It is a good film.
It is a British horror comedy with Danny Dyer. Now whilst that may sound on a par with using a meat tenderiser on your own face, it does actually work.
Some gory scenes mixed with topless hookers and you have this film. Oh and a shed load of drugs.
Got to give this one a watch.
You've made a recruitment video for the Hitler Youth.
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“Severance” besticht durch viel schwarzen Humor und Splatterszenen die auch für schwächere Gemüter anzusehen sind. Durch diese Mischung wird der Film zu etwas besonderen. Alleine die Eröffnungssequenz entlockt dem Zuschauer mehrere Lacher. Hier werden zwei aufreizende Damen durch einen Wald gejagt, fallen in eine Grube und versuchen sich mit Hilfe ihrer Kleidungsstücke wieder aus der Grube zu ziehen, wodurch sie schließlich halb nackt darstellen. Sehr amüsant anzusehen und für die Männer eine ideale Fleischbeschau.
Der Witz entfaltet sich aber nicht nur in dieser Sequenz, sondern zieht sich durch den ganzen Film. Ob die Kollegen nun auf der Fahrt zur Hütte kuriose Diskussionen führen, es beim Abendbrot komische Gruselgeschichten gibt oder einer der Protagonisten einfach nur in einen total dreckigen Swimmingpool…
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Clever British horror-comedy about a team-building camping trip that quickly devolves into murder and mayhem. All the office tropes from The Office are well-represented, and if you happen to work in such a place, you'll get an extra kick out of it all.
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Hmmmm, yeah, not a fan.
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Cheesy & fun & gorey & good. It's a classic that you can watch over & over.