Danny Dyer

Laura Harris

Tim McInnerny

Toby Stephens

Claudie Blakley

Babou Ceesay

Andy Nyman

David Gilliam

Julianna Drajkó

Judit Viktor

Sándor Boros

Levente Törköly

Kasi Béla

Levente Lezsák

Katona Péter

Leanne Li

Attila Ferencz

Christopher Smith

Steve Christian

Ed Wild

John Frankish

James Moran

Stuart Gazzard

Christian Henson

Jason Newmark

Gail Stevens

Michael Kuhn

Zsuzsa Mihalek

Stephen Noble

Lisa Collins

William Davies

Alexandra Arlango

Finola Dwyer

Noémi Czakó

Michael Feinberg

Richard Stockdale

Nick Baldock

Joe Henson

Tamás Krausz

Tamás Nyerges

Vanessa Baker

György Bátonyi

Lucinda Thomson

Csaba Torok

Tamsin Blanchard

Ely Jim

Anna Tesner

Rick Dunford

Simon Frame

Csaba Bankhardt

Neill Gorton

Ferenc Török

Judit Jánosi

Sue Harding

Matt Biffa

Keeley Naylor

Joan Giammarco

Richard Todman

Miklós Molnár

Attila Vásári

Richárd Szeidermann

Linda Zsombolyay

Sándor Katona

Krisztina Kelemen

Howard Watkins

Phil Attfield

Alison Wright

Jánosné Kajtár

Stefan Drury

Brendan Donnison

Jan Sewell

Mark Woolley

Rudolf Takács

Peter Baldock

István Csehy

Dániel Tóth

Nick Wall

David Wheal

Nick Greenall

Lesley Smith

Louise Marzaroli

Peter Burgis

Attila Török

Simon Allmark

Béla Unger

Horror

Comedy

Thriller

Severance

Dan Films

Qwerty Films

HanWay Films

Isle of Man Film

N1 European Film Produktions GmbH & Co. KG

UK Film Council

United Kingdom

Germany

Hungary

English

Magyar

Pусский

Biting British Brutality.  

Eastern Europe wilderness and the sales division of weapons company Palisade Defence are meant to be having a team building weekend. But once they reach their less than luxurious lodge out in the forest, it becomes apparent they are not alone...

We open with a chase that results in a brutal murder, all played out to the wonderful strains of The Small Faces singing "Itchycoo park," it's obvious from this moment that this is no ordinary horror comedy. Comedy as everyone knows is hugely subjective, even more so when it involves horror, some attempts have been roundly accepted such as parody supreme Shaun Of The Dead or nervous titillation in the Evil Dead series, while others are so bad they don't need a mention here. Severance, happily, is as sharp with its humour as one of the knives used in the piece itself, perfectly tuned into the modern world and the bizarreness of it all.

What started out as a working script called "P45", where Christopher Smith's film was to be about these "yuppie" types literally team building for a weekend where if they didn't pass the tests they lost their jobs, escalated to a slasher with a wry satirical edge. The characters, as the makers point out on the DVD, are the perfect blend of the archetypal office workers. Each of them can readily be found in any Brirtish office on any given day. The ineffective leader who's wormed his way into the position, the jocular wide boy, the creep, the babe attracting all the sexual attention and on it goes. Each character rich with British office traditions thrust together for one bubbling comedy stew.

Enter the central theme of weapons making companies firmly under the microscope and Severance has much to say. As a promo video made by the managing director plays, the irony is absolutely hilarious and sets the film up a treat. Even as the film gets bloody, and it's certainly bloody at times, the smiling assassin nature of the script continues to be bitingly funny. There's reams of clever jokes in the piece, so many in fact that even now after my third viewing experience I'm still finding new stuff. So with that I would urge anyone who has only seen it the one time, and been less than enamoured with the premise, to try again and observe and listen without interruption. 

There's even self mocking of the genre it belongs in, and this from the director of 2004s culter, Creep. The cast are uniformly strong, from Tim McInnerny's weasel team leader portrayal to Danny Dyer's with type drug taking "cockernee" boy, all playing off each other with smart and mirth inducing results. A fine fine entry in the horror comedy pantheon, one that just gets better and better with each and every viewing. 9/10

Severance

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