Metacritic reviews

What's more refreshing about Severance is how the movie's humor offsets the violence, and even that is pretty restrained (at least by modern standards).

Director and co-writer Christopher Smith, mischievously blending "The Office" with "Friday the 13th," keeps things fierce and funny enough to give Steve Carell ideas.

Severance still seems a few rewrites away from living up to its potential, but it's remarkable how much just a modicum of wit can spice up the standard backwoods slice-and-dice. Scaring people with a horror film is easy; entertaining them takes a little skill.

For horror fans who crave a few laughs along with their ritual decapitations and limb severings.

A winning combination of laughs and genuine shocks.

Escalating blend of black humor and grisly goings-on in the wilds of Hungary fully delivers in its latter half.

A lively romp through terrain less traveled than you might think.

The chintzy characters, hair-raising deaths, and one spectacular rocket-launcher joke aren't enough to give "Hostel" a run for its blood.

Manages to mix in a few good gags with the requisite gore.

When Smith's Grand Guignol tableaux are strung together, they lack any forward momentum. Some take inspired comic flight. The rest crash to the ground and, like so much else in Severance, go splat.