Average Rating: 6/10
Reviews Counted: 87
Fresh: 55 | Rotten: 32
A twisted and bloody spoof on office life, Severance nicely balances comedy and nasty horror.
Average Rating: 6.1/10
Critic Reviews: 28
Fresh: 18 | Rotten: 10
A twisted and bloody spoof on office life, Severance nicely balances comedy and nasty horror.
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When the president of a high-profile international-arms supplier takes his six best employees to an Eastern European mountain retreat as a means of rewarding them for all of their hard work, their team-building getaway turns into a life-or-death game of kill or be killed in Creep director Christopher Smith's suspenseful comedy thriller. Palisade Defense isn't just the leading supplier of weaponry for the war on terror, it's a company that truly cares about its employees. When the Palisade
R, 1 hr. 36 min.
Sep 1, 2006 Wide
Sep 18, 2007
$66.7k
Magnolia Pictures
All Critics (89) | Top Critics (28) | Fresh (58) | Rotten (33) | DVD (8)
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.
For the odd at heart, it will be worth the wait.
It is wonderfully wry, and contains some great gags.
So there's still a smart office-horror movie left to be made. In the meantime, Severance is just another paycheck.
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.
You got your humour, you got your horror, simply ratchet up both and, voilŕ, Severance -- or, as the billing not inaccurately puts it, The Office Meets Deliverance.
Bloody horror-comedy takes aim at office politics.
Severance is a story of terrible things that couldn't have happened to funnier people.
Sitting through its increasingly sluggish pace feels like, well, work.
Director/co-writer Christopher Smith puts an inventive spin on a familiar hunt-and-kill horror genre and fills the edges with sardonic humor and fantasy visions.
A comical cautionary tale which ought to trigger a little paranoia in the souls of any advocates of the Military-Industrial Complex.
For the most part, the scary parts are the scary parts, the funny parts are the funny parts, and never the twain meet.
The result is a cathartic hoot, relishing its own carefully doled out carnage.
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...
Like a special episode of 'The Office,' scripted by Clive Barker.
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.
[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.
Some employees of an international arms dealer go out into the Hungarian wildeness for a weekend company retreat, only to find themselves menaced by a group of militants who don't like having them around their territory in this modestly budgeted dark comedy/horror film from Christopher Smith, who also directed Black
November 4, 2011Super Reviewer
A wild and enjoyable slasher film. A group of office workers are in Europe for a meeting with arms dealers, when they come across a tree in the road, they get off the bus and the driver leaves them in the middle of no where, they think they will hike to a hostel, wrong, they start being eliminated one by one. My first
May 11, 2010Super Reviewer
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