Beystiman
It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.
Rio Hayward
All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.
Portia Hilton
Blistering performances.
areatw
There are so many comedy/horror films like this out there, but very few are able to find the right balance of humour, gore and scares. 'Severance' is one of those few that gets it spot on. Laughs are plenty, there is enough gore to satisfy any horror fan, and it isn't short of things to make you jump either. Okay, it's been done before a million times over. The plot is predictable and lacks originality. That's not the point. This is a highly entertaining film, and that's all it seeks to be.'Severance' is nothing groundbreaking and nothing we haven't already seen before, but it's still a great piece of entertainment.
bradpmo
Severance is a good example of what a film can be with low budget and brilliant directing and acting. From the first 5 minutes to the last you will be immersed in a laugh - out - loud horror comedy. The film is set in a grotty woodland area where a business team are having a team building weekend. After arriving at their temporary residence, strange things start to happen, and they start seeing things in amongst themselves. The funnier parts of the film only get more frequent towards the end, so make sure to keep watching. From paintballing to eating dinner, whatever this bunch of colleagues get up to, you will be rolling around on the floor. Very funny!
Fredrik Bendz
This has to be one of the worst movies I've seen. I didn't even understand that it was supposed to be funny until I came here and saw the reviews. I just thought it was a crappy horror movie.I'm the kind of person who go for the storyline first and foremost, and the storyline here is like a parody of Friday 13:th. Aren't parodies supposed to be funny? You've seen it before - a group of people is stranded in a desolate house in the middle of nowhere, and a serial killer takes them out one by one. Everyone in the house is so stupid that eventually you almost start to wish them dead.Regarding the acting and directing. I don't think they were as bad as some of the other reviews suggest, but not even a team of Oscar nominated actors/directors could lift this script.The only reason I give it two stars instead of one is that it actually made me smile a few times, and a reference to Sergio Leone near the end.
MARIO GAUCI
This is the first film I am watching from this British genre director who was one of the interviewees in the recently-viewed documentary VIDEO NASTIES: MORAL PANIC, CENSORSHIP AND VIDEOTAPE (2010); it was preceded by CREEP (2004) and followed by TRIANGLE (2009) and BLACK DEATH (2010) and, given my fairly positive experience with the film under review, I would not mind checking out now. I knew next to nothing about this film going in except that it was going to be a comedic horror piece about a team building exercise gone awry but, rather than the expected BATTLE ROYALE (2000)-type scenario, I ended up with yet another ride through DELIVERANCE (1972) territory with the added dollops of pseudo-socio-political commentary thrown in for good measure; even though my experience was nowhere near this catastrophic, it did bring back memories of a positively traumatic team building exercise that me and my colleagues went through a year-and-a-half back! While I still have at least 2 DELIVERANCE imitations to go through from around that same period – SHOOT (1976) and RITUALS (1977) – the "smart-ass-city-dwellers-at-the-mercy-of-backwards-country-folk" plot has been done to death in horror fare from all over the world particularly throughout the last decade.This group of 7 British colleagues – employed by a weapons manufacturing company – seemed too small to warrant this kind of activity, which is generally aimed at larger groups in order that they get to know each other better; also the fact they are flown off to a supposedly luxury hotel in a remote part of Hungary comes off as far-fetched, especially since the CEO is waiting for them there! At any rate, we have the standard collection of stereotypical characters set to bond or clash at the very first opportunity: the hated supervisor, the sarcastic handsome salesman, the nerdy, eager-to-please fat guy, the sensitive woman, the hot blonde girl everybody lusts after, the colored underling and the horny, dopey wastrel. Half the film is spent on establishing the relationships within the group, all the while making use of some agreeably surreal touches to do so: the supervisor dreams of the hot blonde inviting him into her bed but, upon turning to face him, he finds the contemptuous salesman in drag; the pot-headed man sees multiple versions of himself (and meets a talking deer in a deleted scene), etc.While the events are unnecessarily narrated in flashback, needless to say, very few opportunities for blood flowing or gallows humor are missed (the fate of the fat guy and the salesman are particularly notable in this respect) and the fact that the two local call-girls (hired by the wastrel) eventually save the day is a clever touch – as is the inclusion on the soundtrack of The Small Faces' "Itchycoo Park" and the unfortunately-covered Vera Lynn's "We'll Meet Again" (over the opening and closing credits respectively). The downside of all this, however, is that once the villains' identity (a band of mentally unbalanced Hungarian war veterans) is revealed, we see way too much of them making for a far less menacing presence then they had seemed initially!
