Review of Severance

Severance (2006)
6/10
The Poor Man's "Hostel"
31 August 2006
Warning: Spoilers
Saw the movie 2 hours ago and must say I am slightly disappointed. There were a few decent and slightly innovative scares, and also a few decent laughs. However Danny Dyer's character makes no sense as a pill popping employee on a team building exercise with his boss- we assume, as we are never really informed of how the group is actually made up other than that Tim McInnery (who is the best thing about the movie) is the boss. Dyer smokes countless joints of cannabis,ingests enough magic mushrooms to floor a horse as well as carrying a bag of ecstasy, all this whilst away with his work colleagues?

The story takes at least half of the movie to get going, and then it doesn't really get going at all. Apart from a couple of "spooky stories about this place" we don't find any explanation for any of the "horrors" and the ending is very vague. This is a shame, because the story could have been far better developed in the hands of a good screenwriter. Worth a watch on DVD, but keep your box office pennies in your pocket, or go see "The Descent" instead.
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