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Actor: David Dyer, John Frankish, Laura Harris, Tim McInnerny, Toby StephensBrand: MAGNOLIA FILMS
Cinematographer: Ed Wild
Composer: Christian Henson
Conductor: Christian Henson
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 96 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-09-18
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Magnolia Home Entertainment
Product features:
- Working nine to five is a real killer, but teambuilding holidays can sometimes be even worse.A coach lurches out of the hustle and bustle of Budapest and heads towards the mountainous border. Aboard are seven employees of the international weapons manufacturer Palisade Defence, global suppliers of innovative weaponry for the past 75 war-torn years. The lucky group are being treated to a team-build
DVD Reviews of Severance
DVD Review: Another Great Horror Comedy
Summary: 4 Stars
Take the Americanized Office television show, make it British again and change their paper company to a military defense company like Northrop Grumman, but more accessible and friendly. Send the group of them into the woods to a run-down military asylum where they are hunted like animals by blood-thirsty psychos, and you have the rip-roaring horror comedy that is Severance .
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Well-made horror comedies are a rare find. When I say well-made, I don't mean that there aren't quite a few horror movies out there that have giddily funny moments. Movies like The Toxic Avenger may blur the line, but they rely more on camp than a purer comedic element. I think it has to do with believability. There are some horror movies that find comedy in how a normal person would react to an abnormal situation. Shaun of the Dead excelled in this to a great length. Scenes such as his zombified step-father going crazy until he could turn off the radio are classic in my eyes. Although in the movie the zombies may not be too believable, Shaun's obliviousness to the situation, and finally his reaction, seem plausible, and only minorly exaggerated at times.
Enter Severance. The movie works much like Shaun of the Dead, and this is without reading other reviews which say the same damn thing without explaining why. It's true. The oblivious nature of the corporate employees of international weapons creator Palisade Defence is shown at the beginning, while they are all on a bus heading to their supposed safe destination at a "luxury lodge." It's a believable premise, complete with a tight-lipped staff manager(played by Tim McInnerny), a stoned-out techie(played by Danny Dyer), an anti-war hippie-type(played by Claudie Blakly), and a loveable, fat goon(played by Andy Nyman), among the rest of a stellar cast.
When their bus driver kicks them off the bus in front of a road not entirely on the beaten path, the crew decide to walk in the hope of finding their destination. What they find is a run-down building that could only be the corporate lodge if their company were instigating this trip during these economic times. While exploring, they come upon paperwork linking their company to Russian military activity and soldier dossiers. With this information they concoct elaborate camp-fire like tales of what went on in the building, the most comical belonging to Danny Dyer.
After the sighting of a peeping tom at a window, in the middle of this supposedly lifeless forest, the gang investigates a way to get the hell back to civilization, and are instead attacked by human-sized pygmies with guns, and fun times are had by all.
Some of the great scenes in this movie, without giving too much away:
-human meat pies
-a happy anecdote about human heads remaining conscious for a time after being severed from their body, with a morbid punch-line
-a rocket launcher gone awry
-Danny Dyer saying, "This is gonna hurt."
-Hot half-naked Scandanavian prostitutes with assault rifes
DVD Review: An outstanding, funny Horror-Comedy!
Summary: 5 Stars
I picked this up used on a whim from Amazon. Well, a whim inspired on the fact that it has Laura Harris in a leading roll... Anyway, right from the beginning, the movie presents its off beat witty humor. The characters are all likable (for their respective rolls) and the story is surprisingly solid for a movie of this genre. Oh, and the ending was great!DVD Review: Loved It, Loved It, Loved It...
Summary: 5 Stars
Just got this the other day and have already watched it twice. Had to share it with my friends.... I laughed so hard during this movie, its got the campy goodness, but also the gore and creative killings ([...]) of a great slasher flick. All in all this is an awesome flick! I'm so glad I got this one...DVD Review: Brilliant Bloodbath
Summary: 5 Stars
Directed by Christopher Smith
Written by James Moran & Christopher Smith
Any intelligent person forced to take part in an office team-building exercise knows how easy it would be to slip from controlled corporate rage to homicide. The creators of Severance understand that feeling. In place of traditional slasher film targets (such as obnoxious teenagers) they have substituted the people we most want to see mutilated and murdered: co-workers.
When their bus breaks down somewhere in an Eastern European forest, several sales employees of the multi-national Palisade Defence have to schlep their belongings to the nearest hotel. There they await instructions from the American executive who planned their trip. The hotel turns out to be a moldy inn equipped with no amenities except weird pie. And every step outside the place lands the unhappy employees in (often excruciating) peril.
Acting Talent
Thanks to a terrific cast that includes Laura Harris, Danny Dyer, and Tim McInnerny (Lord Percy Percy and Capt. Darling of Blackadder fame) there is no need for over-the-top special effects. Don't get me wrong; what is here is truly horrific. But the point of view makes it so. For example, there's a scene in which a character sees something that gets his feet moving a lot faster--only we don't see what he sees. We see the sheer, animal terror in his eyes, and this is just as effective as anything the props department could have dreamed up.
Plausibility
While some horror filmmakers court plausibility with computer graphics, Christopher Smith makes the bolder and more disturbing choice to go natural. All the stunts and threats come from realistic or believable objects, relations, and circumstances. The style works; it hurts to watch.
Wit
A couple of the best jokes in this film are a long time coming. Yet they're set up so expertly, you recognize every punch line the second it arrives.
Story
You'll spend about half the film trying to figure out if the force preying on our busload of working stiffs is supernatural, psychological, or real. When you finally know, the answer is satisfying in so many ways. All the pieces fit together as snugly as a perfect jigsaw puzzle.
Break out the good wine, and screen this one with smart friends you want to impress and terrify.
DVD Review: Severance Sort of
Summary: 3 Stars
I wish that we could give half stars when rating films because it would make life so much easier. Some films just fall into that netherland in between a 3 and a 4 and SEVERANCE is one of them. It isn't the laff riot that I expected but it does offer moments of dark humor though not as much as I had been led to believe. In fact it has one very clever sequence based on the silent version of NOSFERATU that was one of the best things I've seen in years--unfortunately the film makers couldn't sustain that level of creativity for the entire 90 minute running time. There were other things I admired, to be sure. Such as some of the surprises they pulled out of their bag in relation to the identity of the killer. I liked the fact that there was no solid background for him, that all we know is what the characters gave us themselves as they sat around the table telling different stories they had heard in the past.
SEVERANCE isn't exactly a carnage fest either. There is gore aplenty but if you're looking for eviscerations you aren't going to find them here. And those of you looking for nudity are going to have to wait until the last few minutes to see four breasts. The plot concerns a group of Brits employed by a weapons manufacturer. They are on corporate retreat in Rumania or some such place when their bus breaks down, their driver deserts them,and they decide to hike to what they presume to be their lodge. Wrong. It is in fact the lair of the usual demented serial killer. Violence ensues. Fortunately I could care less about that but it would take too much effort. SEVERANCE is an okay rental. You might even get a kick out of it.
Description of Severance
Working nine to five is a real killer but teambuilding holidays can sometimes be even worse.A coach lurches out of the hustle and bustle of Budapest and heads towards the mountainous border. Aboard are seven employees of the international weapons manufacturer Palisade Defence global suppliers of innovative weaponry for the past 75 war-torn years. The lucky group are being treated to a team-building weekend at the company s newly built luxury spa lodge by their president George Cinders.But things quickly go awry as the colleagues find themselves faced with the chop when their corporate weekend is sabotaged by a deadly enemy. Forget office politics only the smartest will survive this bloody office outing.System Requirements:Running Time: 90 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre:?HORROR Rating:?R UPC:?876964000956 Manufacturer No:?10095Comic Action DVDs
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