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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 36 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Originally Released: 2006
- Label: Magnolia Home Entertainment
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Danny Dyer, Laura Harris, Tim McInnerny & Toby Stephens | |
Performer: | Andy Nyman, Claudie Blakley, David Gilliam & Judit Viktor | |
Directed by | Christopher Smith | |
Composition by | Christian Henson | |
Produced by | Jason Newmark | |
Director of Photography: | Ed Wild |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 2/4 --
So there's still a smart office-horror movie left to be made. In the meantime, Severance is just another paycheck.
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Denver Post
Rating: 3/4 --
It is wonderfully wry, and contains some great gags.
Detroit Free Press
Rating: 3/4 --
Like Shaun of the Dead, the movie enthusiastically embraces all the grotesque clichés we love and have come to expect from the form -- turning several on their ear.
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Toronto Star
Rating: 3/4 --
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...
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Cinema Crazed
Rating: 4/5 --
Discriminating horror fans should also note that it's the most exhilarating fright flick to hit theatres since last year's The Descent.
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Georgia Straight
Rating: 2/5 --
Sitting through its increasingly sluggish pace feels like, well, work.
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eFilmCritic.com
Severance is a story of terrible things that couldn't have happened to funnier people.
Washington City Paper
Product Description:
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 by their manager, Richard (Tim McInnerny, BLACKADDER), the co-workers soon realize that their trip is less about trust falls and rope courses than it is about death and destruction. Someone has targeted the team, and begins to take down the cubemates one by one.
SEVERANCE is savvy and sly, but it never lets the comedy override the onscreen horror. Humor may temper the disturbing visuals, but this British comedy isn't SHAUN OF THE DEAD. It's far less flashy and a good deal darker, but it all works to great effect. This film is more in the spirit of DOG SOLDIERS, a movie with bleak gallows humor amid its blood and gore. In addition to its smart satire of office culture, SEVERANCE features stomach-churning scenes that rival the violence in films from the SAW trilogy. This film doesn't rely on A-list stars, with McInnerny vying with Harris and Toby Stephens (DIE ANOTHER DAY) for the position of most recognizable actor. But regardless of its lack of marquee talent, SEVERANCE ably mixes guts and giggles to create an entertaining and gruesome film.
SEVERANCE is savvy and sly, but it never lets the comedy override the onscreen horror. Humor may temper the disturbing visuals, but this British comedy isn't SHAUN OF THE DEAD. It's far less flashy and a good deal darker, but it all works to great effect. This film is more in the spirit of DOG SOLDIERS, a movie with bleak gallows humor amid its blood and gore. In addition to its smart satire of office culture, SEVERANCE features stomach-churning scenes that rival the violence in films from the SAW trilogy. This film doesn't rely on A-list stars, with McInnerny vying with Harris and Toby Stephens (DIE ANOTHER DAY) for the position of most recognizable actor. But regardless of its lack of marquee talent, SEVERANCE ably mixes guts and giggles to create an entertaining and gruesome film.
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