Severance
A motley crew of characters working for a multinational arms supplier, Palisade Defence, are sent off for a team-building weekend to a luxury lodge...in the deepest, darkest depths of Hungary. "Another bloody office outing" becomes, well, just that, as things begin to go oddly awry after the team is stranded in a creepy forest and must leg it to the lodge. Far from the anticipated luxury accommodations, they find a shabby building with dusty files on Serbian lowlifes in the basement. What follows includes encounters with a spider, a bear trap, a rocket launcher and an increasing number of weapon-bearing men in ski masks, hell-bent on creating mayhem. With impeccable timing and astute use of music, Severance is a gleefully gruesome tour-de-force. Alternately audacious and outrageous, director Christopher Smith's creation is a roller-coaster-like balance between grisly gore and deliciously dark humor. Imagine the cast of The Office in a slasher pic, and you'll get the idea. It's brilliantly entertaining. — Z. Elton
Director: Christopher Smith
Producer: Michael Kuhn, Jason Newmark
Screenwriter: Christopher Smith, James Moran
Cinematographer: Ed Wild
Editor: Stuart Gazzard
Cast: Danny Dyer, Laura Harris, Tim McInnerny, Toby Stephens, Claudie Blakley
Print Source:
Magnolia Pictures
49 W. 27th Street
7th Floor
New York, NY, 1001
Tel: 212.924.6701
Official Website: severancethemovie.com
