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Working nine to five is a real killer, but when you work for Palisade Defence, team-building holidays can be even worse. Seven colleagues find themselves faced with the chop when their corporate weekend is sabotaged by a deadly enemy. Forget office politics, only the smartest will survive this office outing. Read more

Starring Danny Dyer, Laura Harris, Tim McInnerny
Director Christopher Smith
Genres Audio Descriptive, Comedy, Horror, Thriller

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Severance

Working nine to five is a real killer, but when you work for Palisade Defence, team-building holidays can be even worse. Seven colleagues find themselves faced with the chop when their corporate weekend is sabotaged by a deadly enemy. Forget office politics, only the smartest will survive this office outing.

Starring Danny Dyer, Laura Harris, Tim McInnerny
Director Christopher Smith
Studio PATHE DISTRIBUTION
Run time DVD: 1 hr 30 mins
Certificate DVD Certificate 15.gif
Genres Audio Descriptive, Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Language English, English Audio Description
Hearing-impaired English
Released DVD: 08 Jan 2007
Production year: 2006
Format DVD

  • Critics' reviews (3) of Severance

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  • Blending fierce horror and sly humour, Christopher Smiths confident follow-up to the more generic Creep marks... read more on Time Out

    • Nigel Floyd, 
    • Time Out
    • Posted 04 Nov 2008

  • Brilliant horror-comedy... the gags are laugh-out-loud.

    • FHM
    • Posted 08 Oct 2007

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  • 53 out of 69 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 4 stars

    The DeliverOffice

    Splicing comedy and horror, 'Severance' is an amusing and sometimes painfully tense riff on 'Deliverance', populated by stereotypes from 'The Office' or 'The Smoking Room' - Danny Dyer's wideboy loafer, Tim McInnerney's anal boss with his irritating 'manager speak', Toby Stephens' slimy smoothy et al. The film starts slow - and is a little uneven at times - with our motley crew from weapons manufacturer Palisades being coached into the Hungarian wilds for a 'team building' holiday. Unfortunately, events conspire to lead them to the wrong lodge building in the woods... and it all goes downhill from there. Suffice to say, there's not a lot of team building to be had, as our protagonists are 'offed' in increasingly wild and gruesomely wacky ways (some of which will make you laugh out loud or cringe behind your fingers). Standout is one character's death by beheading, where his earlier musings on the ability for the human brain to survive being detached from the body for several minutes are proved, ridiculously and much to his pleasure, as correct. 'Severance' is low-budget stuff, to be frank, and there are occasions when the jokes fall flat, but the tension builds nicely as the lodge eventually becomes surrounded by the shadowy army figures who turn the Palisades' staff weapons against them. If you like survival horror, then this is lean, mean (knife in the anus, anyone?) and sometimes butt-clenchingly funny (check out the scene with the severed leg in the coach fridge...). It's also better than most of the so-called 'gorenography' releases ('Hostel', 'Slither' etc) of late - and it's British!

      • Mike Thomas from South Wales
      • Posted 30 Aug 2006 09:04

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  • 1 out of 1 person found this review helpful

    Rated - 5 stars

    BRILLIANT!!!

    Started to watch this film and thought at first it was going to be cheesy but it started to get quite scary and there were quirky funny bits in it that I thought were brilliant and broke the scary silence.

    I really enjoyed this film!!!!!

      • A customer from Cheshire
      • Posted 03 Oct 2007 15:06

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