Severance (DVD)

A group of British sales execs are on their way to a team-building weekend in Hungary. As the tv screens on the coach recycle promotional videos for Palisade Defense, the driver pulls up sharply, the road blocked by fallen trees. Refusing to take a detour down a narrower road running off at a tangent, the driver throws everyone off the bus and drives away. The stranded party set out in the general direction of their intended destination, eventually stumbling upon a run-down lodge which they assume is the one meant for their weekend. Reluctantly establishing themselves in their new home, the group speculate over dinner as to the history behind the lodge, with Jill ...  Read the complete review

A team of workers for a weapons company are sent on a team-building course in Hungary. On arrival at a lodge in the middle of a forest, they are slightly freaked to find that, far from being the luxury accommodation they were expecting, they have to stay in a creepy building with just a few basic facilities. Things take a turn for the worse the next day when two of them find their coach driver dead and another one loses his leg to a bear trap - one of many that litter the woods. Trying to escape in the coach, they crash and are forced to face the fact that someone doesn't want them to go...alive, that is. But who is trying to kill them, and why? Will any of them escape ...  Read the complete review

This is a review of the film only. I this was one of my choices from the dvd subscription I have. Synopsis Working nine to five is a real killer, but when you work for Palisade Defence, team-building holidays can be even worse. Seven 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 office outing. Story Seven colleagues (Harris, Jill, Maggie, gordon, Billy, Richard and Steve) who work for Palisade Defence ( a weapons company) are on a team building exercise, on their way to there destination (a luxury lodge in ...  Read the complete review

------------ THE PLOT ------------ Weapons Defense are a large weapons-creation company. A group of salesmen and saleswomen who work in the European division are sent on a team-building weekend in Hungary. Their weekend turns into a life-or-death battle against a group of killers who want revenge on the company. ------------ THE CAST ------------ An interesting cast, the most recognisable member of which to me was Tim McInnery, who I remember from the BLACKADDER TV series many years ago. McInnery plays the manager of the sales team, and he comes across as a very ineffective manager, much in the mould of David Brent ...  Read the complete review

En route to a wood side luxury lodge, deep in the Eastern European mountains, members of a leading defence organisation's sales team suddenly find themselves rather lost. Despite their best attempts to locate the lodge on their map, they are unable to persuade the coach driver to take a diversion and after a brief, heated argument, they find themselves abandoned in the middle of nowhere, with only a bare idea of where they need to go. As they make their way through the woods, they aren't entirely sure that they are heading in the right direction; their nervousness is only made worse by Steve, a member of the team who is high on magic mushrooms and seems to be ...  Read the complete review