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Severance

Severance

2006
Comedy, Suspense/Thriller
1h 36m
When a weapons multi-national Palisade Defense reward their European sales division with a team-building weekend in the mountains of Eastern Europe, comedy blends with horror as the team fight first amongst themselves, and later for survival against a group of war-crazed killers intent on revenge. (imdb)
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Severance

2006
Comedy, Suspense/Thriller
1h 36m
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Avg Percentile 42.73% from 745 total ratings

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Rated 19 Jan 2009
45
12th
A comedy horror that isn't really that scary but is dark and comedic. It focuses a lot on arms manufacturers and is set up like a slasher flick. So you get really absurd shit going on because that's what you expect from the genre. It does twist a few cliches on their head like naked (or at least half naked) chicks not dying. I liked it but I won't recommend it. But it comes close.
Rated 25 May 2009
49
32nd
A taunting and diverse hack n' slash horror comedy with many fun twists and surprises hidden beneath its surface. Very bloody and fun to view. Will need repeated watches to fully enjoy it from beginning to end.
Rated 17 May 2010
80
35th
Enjoyable mix of humor and horror. Not up to Raimi levels, but still entertaining.
Rated 13 Feb 2007
35
13th
Poor.
Rated 19 Mar 2007
5
4th
A torrid piece of film. Then again if you want to see this trash, that's all probably your kind of thing anyway. Completely fails to entertain.
Rated 28 Oct 2007
67
32nd
A movie that is not quite sure whether its wants to be the next Dawn of the dead or the next Shaun of the dead, and unfortunately ends up being a movie that tries to be funny and scary at the same time but never fully succeeds on both accounts.
Rated 18 Jan 2009
76
50th
Well, let me just say this, and as indicated by the star rating I gave this movie, this is not a negative review. Its just that the first part of this movie is similar to The Descent. That movie was crap, and this movie improves drastically. Some of the dry British humor in this movie is lost on me, and I usually pick up on it. It could be because this is supposed to be The Office meets High Tension. Once the horror/action part of the film starts, it gets really good and the humor really flies.
Rated 01 Aug 2009
61
9th
got a bit boring at points, and it was more of a thriller than horror or comedy
Rated 02 Sep 2009
65
58th
Pretty fun and entertaining horror-comedy. it isn't a classic by any means, but if you like the genre you'll dig it.
Rated 23 Dec 2009
55
60th
An enjoyable little splattercom, although I enjoyed the buildup far more than the payoff. Kudos to whomever made the previews for this film I was expecting more than was delivered after those.
Rated 09 Apr 2010
32
19th
A couple of humourous moments here and there but most of those are uncreative and juvenile. There's plenty of gore here for the splatter fans and a plot that's so stupid you'll never be lost ever. Competently made in terms of film making, you're never lost as to what's going on and the editing keeps things moving which can be a problem in horror flicks. Still, unless you're a die hard horror fan this won't entertain.
Rated 04 Feb 2011
64
52nd
Quasi-comedy horror doesn't sound that appealing, but Severance gets away with it with much more style than one would expect. I didn't find it very funny, to be honest (I didn't find it painfully unfunny either, though), but I did actually get creeped out a few times in the first half. Remains entertaining throughout.
Rated 17 Apr 2011
30
13th
Not really funny, not gory enough (best kills happen offscreen) and completely cliche storyline that we could see in hundreds of horrors before this one (and many times done much better).
Rated 19 Jun 2011
54
59th
Tried to mix humor and horror, and ended up with a movie that felt lacking on both ends. There are a few laughs, and a few jumps, but the whole experience leaves you thinking that the film could have been a lot better than it was.
Rated 30 Sep 2011
52
30th
Starts out relatively promising and then becomes more run-of-the-mill than, err, a mill that runs really well.
Rated 02 Mar 2007
69
48th
Better than I thought it would be, better than it ought to be.
Rated 11 Aug 2007
64
45th
With a cast of fun character actors and a few clever surprises, Severance shows that one can actually still make a slasher movie that is different than the norm without being redundant, or in being a total parody of them.
Rated 11 Nov 2007
70
64th
7- recommended, good
Rated 28 Dec 2007
85
69th
Very good mixture of horror and comedy, in a very creepy setting.
Rated 27 Jun 2008
81
91st
Nice
Rated 03 Jan 2009
66
59th
Some tasty looking girls, some lame scenes. The beginning and the end are okay, but stuff inbetween wobbles from really bad to almost suitable.
Rated 12 Jun 2009
71
81st
Enjoyable horror/comedy.
Rated 22 Jul 2009
70
59th
Good fun, and a bit of a different take on the genre.
Rated 04 Nov 2009
60
22nd
Pretty confused movie that wants to be both suspenseful and deadpan witty, but bounces back and forth too quickly between the two, completely destroying any opportunity to establish a mood. But if you discarded the comedic elements entirely, this would be just completely forgettable and by-the-numbers. Somehow this left me wanting both more and less.
Rated 18 Dec 2009
79
61st
It feels like this film doesn't really know whether it wants to be a full-blown satire or a an actual by-the-book-horror film. The end result is both parts get half-assed. But a good quarter of the movie is very funny.
Rated 18 Dec 2009
80
55th
Slow build-up, but man, what a great payoff! Steve (played by Danny Dyer) has got to be by next favorite character/actor in a horror film, second only to the immortal 'Ash' (Bruce Campbell) in Evil Dead. This movie was a lot of fun. It was able to satisfy both the gore and the humour quotient required of the tricky genre 'splattercom.'
Rated 05 Feb 2010
78
51st
It is hilarious and at times quite suspenseful, but no masterpiece by any means.
Rated 25 Feb 2010
62
32nd
I had high expectations going into this horror/comedy, but the film fails to really stand out in the horror comedy genre. It's mediocre, and enjoyable, but nothing you would think to watch a second time or even recommend to friends.
Rated 11 Nov 2010
15
21st
"Severance's lame jokes are fully formed, something that can't be said about its political critique." - Nick Schager
Rated 22 Dec 2010
20
6th
It begins with two women falling into a hole about 8 feet deep - the best plan they can hatch to get out is to strip down to their underwear. A few seconds later a guy gets disembowelled. That sums up the entire film, really. It's the very definition of a dumb, by-the-numbers, cabin-in-the-woods slasher flick. There is some humour, I'll give it that, but mostly it just falls flat. If you're looking for an original plot or a film with believable characters, then don't watch this.
Rated 27 Apr 2011
70
50th
Had no idea what this film was about before watching it, and have to say I didnt know whether it was a comedy, or a horror / thriller ... there were some great laughs, yet some really gruesome scenes too .... in the end it was clear that it was a really well acted, scripted and shot comedy/horror. I usually prefer one or the other genre, but this really worked in "Severence". Excellent performances helped from all the ensemble, never "playing for laughs" but never losing comedic timing.
Rated 22 May 2011
40
13th
Tries to be a mixture of horror and comedy and fails on both accounts. The tone of the entire film is horror, so the jokes are not only very bad, but they seem completely out of place. Practically every attempt at humor fails and the suspense is mediocre at best. Just a complete waste of time.
Rated 29 Oct 2011
62
7th
C-list cast doing D-grade material. Ridiculously mad characters bumble through a truly moronic plot, packed with schlocky cheap thrills and themes grossly derived from other equally bad entries in the gore genre. If you're going to be this unoriginal, why not remake a film that works, like The Shining or Alien?
Rated 17 Nov 2011
41
16th
Someone called it "Office Space meets Deliverance"; more like Friday the 13th IV meets a PG-rated Hostel. Decent idea, good actors, a couple of great gags, but let down by the same crap director who ruined Creep.
Rated 27 Dec 2011
85
57th
I'm not a huge fan of slashers, but this one did a decent job of subverting my expectations at several turns. Nice bit of espresso-dark humour and it was good to see Dead Like Me's Laura Harris in action again.
Rated 21 Sep 2012
58
37th
Danny Dyer, being the bloke what don't feel no pain that he is, doesn't die. This is a bad thing. Always a pleasure to see Tim McInnery though. Big step down from the criminally underrated "Creep", but entertaining nonetheless.
Rated 13 Jun 2013
3
24th
There's a moment in this movie where an American character takes out a rocket launcher, aims it at a group of people, fires, and watches as the rocket completely redirects and hits a commuter plane. That made me laugh pretty hard. There are many moments like this, which overall makes the movie very entertaining, even if a lot of it is a bit stupid.
Rated 17 Nov 2014
20
3rd
eng; [severance]; als teambuildingmaßnahme fährt eine gruppe in ein abgelegenes berggebiet in ost-europa, doch dort gibt es eine gruppe kriegsverbrecher die spaß am töten hat.;
Rated 22 Mar 2015
65
45th
Has both genuinely witty and scary moments and makes fun of a lot of genre conventions, but as a whole it's a little messy and constantly switches in tone. It starts of strong, but falls apart in the last act.
Rated 07 Aug 2018
64
46th
6.8.18(+)
Rated 25 Jul 2020
70
54th
Has Danny pissed himself? Does one's brain survive decapitation? All this and more.
Rated 10 Oct 2021
68
51st
2021'de #IzlediğimFilmler : 271. Severance (2006) Office dizisini ve slasher korku filmlerini beğeniyorsanız bu filmi de seveceksiniz. Eğlenceli bir korku filmi.
Rated 25 Jun 2022
47
35th
Seen: 2. Some decent laughs to go with the typical remote cabin in the woods murder-fest. It's tonally awkward quite often, and there's just not enough comedy to recommend it.
Rated 12 Oct 2023
35
14th
I've liked some of Christopher Smith's other movies, but this is a quintessential bad mid-2000s horror offering, right down to the douchebag characters who are all too horny, the obnoxious sense of humor, and the characters constantly doing things that don't make any sense. It's also got a bad case of that gross and weirdly prevalent "aren't Eastern Europeans super scary and evil?" trope. I'm sure you can blame that on the first Hostel movie coming out the year before.

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