Severance (DVD) Reviews

note: also appears in part on Flixster and The Student Room It was only inevitable after the success of Shaun of the Dead that numerous British comedy horror films would follow, and the most direct successor to that film was Severance a fun film that, while nothing on Shaun of the Dead, is still a fun and action-packed ...  Read the complete review

Released in 2006, Severance is a British-made horror comedy in which a group of office workers working for a big defence company specialising in military hardware go on a corporate team-building trip via coach to a remote location in the Hungarian mountains. They end up taking a wrong turn however, and find themselves being mercilessly hunted down ...  Read the complete review

People getting lost in the middle of nowhere and then hunted down by some creepy dude is almost a genre in itself. It's an old favourite with horror folk, and can be seen everywhere, like The Hills Have Eyes (creepy dude in desert), Wolf Creek (creepy dude in outback), the old classic Friday the 13th (creepy dude in summer camp) and the once ...  Read the complete review

I realise Severance is supposed to be a horror film but I actually found it more funny than it was scary. I know that may make me sound quite sick, however I did not feel that the film created enough suspense, so when it got to those final moments when people are supposed to jump out of their seats, it did not really have the desired effect. I ...  Read the complete review

This is a typical Danny dyer film meant to be horror but turned comedy. The film starts with a weapons company having a team building exercise in a eastern European country. They start off travelling through Europe, they stop off at a truck stop and as usual Danny dyer has to but drugs in the form of magic mushrooms and has bad ones in which he ...  Read the complete review

A decent horror film for me is one with comedy. I just can't take the genre seriously without some dark humor or tongue-in-cheekiness, as is the case with this one. I haven't been scared by a horror film in my life and 'sussed' from an early age that nothing was real in these films, the heads coming off, not real, the blood ,Kensington Gore. The ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  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 ...  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 ...  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 ...  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 ...  Read the complete review

I don’t normally watch horror films, but I knew that “Severance” was a British film, and played for comedic effect. It also only has a 15 rating, so I figured that it wouldn’t be that scary. I was right; there is a fair amount of gore in this film, but I didn’t find it scary. As the name suggests, the plot is plain vanilla madman-in-the-woods ...  Read the complete review

Well, seeing as how the trailer for this made it look like a right corker and seeing as how I had kind of hyped this up already in my own head from everything I had read about it, I guess it was always on the cards that Severance (described as the office meets shaun of the dead) was going to leave me feeling disappointed and let ...  Read the complete review

Shaun of the Dead is a hilarious film and I thought it was a great take on comedy horror so when I heard about Severance supposedly being the funniest horror comedy since Shaun of the Dead I thought it might be worth a look. I rented the film and decided to give it a go with my sister eagerly waiting to see it too. Our after thoughts are 1. Was ...  Read the complete review

Severance, the latest brit flick comedy/thriller/horror to hit our screens, has been described as a cross between 'The office' and 'Deliverance'. A comedy horror to follow on from the mega successes of Dog Soldiers and Shaun of The Dead is what Severance wants to be while sadly all it manages to do is to be a pale imitation of the two. While ...  Read the complete review

(Film only review) The Plot ----------- A group of workers employed by an armaments firm go off on an outward-bound style team building weekend in Hungary. Lost in the woods, they find they have more to worry about than bears. The Cast ----------- Since this film was partially funded with lottery money, ...  Read the complete review