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Director:
Writers:
James Moran (screenplay) and
Christopher Smith (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
25 August 2006 (Ireland) more
Tagline:
Another bloody office outing. more
Plot:
A team-building weekend in the mountains of Eastern Europe goes horribly wrong for the sales division... more | add synopsis
Awards:
4 wins & 1 nomination more
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Entertaining mix of comedy and gore more (165 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Toby Stephens | ... | Harris | |
| Claudie Blakley | ... | Jill | |
| Andy Nyman | ... | Gordon | |
| Babou Ceesay | ... | Billy | |
| Tim McInnerny | ... | Richard | |
| Laura Harris | ... | Maggie | |
| Danny Dyer | ... | Steve | |
| David Gilliam | ... | George | |
| Juli Drajkó | ... | Olga | |
| Judit Viktor | ... | Nadia | |
| Sándor Boros | ... | Coach Driver | |
| Levente Törköly | ... | Lodge Killer | |
| János Oláh | ... | Flamethrower Killer | |
| Attila Ferencz | ... | Head-squish Killer | |
| Bela Kasi | ... | Headbutt Killer |
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Also Known As:
P45 (UK) (working title)
Severance - Ein blutiger Betriebsausflug (Germany)
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MPAA:
Rated R for strong bloody violence, language, drug content and some sexuality/nudity.
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Runtime:
96 min | Canada:90 min (Toronto International Film Festival)
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1.85 : 1 more
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Certification:
UK:15 | Ireland:18 | Switzerland:18 (canton of Vaud) | Switzerland:18 (canton of Geneva) | Singapore:NC-16 | Germany:18 | France:-12 (with warning) | Malaysia:(Banned) | USA:R | Finland:K-18 | Argentina:18 | Norway:18 | Portugal:M/16 | Italy:VM18 | South Korea:18 | Australia:MA | Canada:13+ (Quebec) | New Zealand:R16 | Netherlands:16 | Italy:VM14 (DVD)
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Toby Stephens wanted to do the movie because he'd never done a horror film before and liked the comedy/horror mix of the project. more
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Continuity: When the land-mine that Richard is stepping from explodes you can clearly see that the explosion of it takes place in a completely different place in the forest (tree on the left side of the screen which wasn't there before, the soldiers balancing over the horizontal-tree are completely gone together with the tree from the screen, as well already before the explosion takes place). more
Quotes:
[the group is at breakfast the day after Steve ate the hallucinogenic mushrooms]
Maggie:
Are you still tripping?
Steve:
No, no. Why are you naked?
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References Shaun of the Dead (2004) more
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Word Up more
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I went into this film expecting a zombie movie for some reason, but actually Severance is more like a British version of Eli Roth's successful 'Hostel', albeit with a bit more humour. There have been a few good British horror movies over the past few years, including most notably the likes of Dog Soldiers, Shaun of the Dead, Wilderness and The Descent. I wouldn't say this one really lives up to the best of them; but Severance is good comedic and bloodthirsty fun, and there's certainly enough about it to ensure that the film stands tall as another feather in the cap of modern British horror. The film starts off in a truly nightmarish fashion; we are introduced to a bunch of office workers going on a 'team building' trip in the middle of nowhere. The prospect of this alone is enough to make me not want to sleep tonight, but it gets (arguably) worse for these guys it when it turns out that they're not the only ones in the middle of nowhere - a bunch of bloodthirsty maniacs turn out to be doing a bit of team building too!
The film is pretty slow to start, with the first half of the film merely seeing us being introduced to the cast of snivelling office workers. However, once the violence starts, the film really hots up as we get treated to a whole load of grisly sequences that see things such as decapitations and limbs being lopped off. The location is put to good use as our cast of characters finds themselves in the middle of an Eastern European country and director Christopher Smith does an excellent job of ensuring the tone of the film is always hopeless. The cast isn't anything to write home about, although Danny Dyer, who you might remember from the very decent British gangster flick The Business, does a good job of holding the film together. The humour doesn't blend as well with the horror as the director obviously thought it would, and this is where the film falls down for me. Severance would have been a better movie if the director could have made his mind up about exactly where he wanted to take it. As it happens, Severance is an entertaining mix of gore and laughs; but it's not at the cutting edge of modern horror.