Severance

UK 2006, 92 minutes
Dir. Christopher Smith
Rating: [R16]
Genres: Horror, Comedy

Feat. Danny Dyer, Laura Harris, Tim McInnerny

Aroview: Bludgeoning horror-comedy that derives its slasher conventions and corporate politics from an ill-fated team building exercise in the Eastern European wilderness.

Touted as "The Office" (disgruntled white collar colleagues) meets "Deliverance" (rednecks in the woods), but other touchstones stretch a mile in between as its cast of stereotypes meet their fate at the end of a psycho's hatchet, and various other implements of choice.

NZ International Film Festival 2007