We’re pretty sure that the team building event so loved by middle managers and hated by all staff and recognised as little more than a tax write off. Many years ago the AnyGoodFilms team endured such an event part of which saw us volunteering our Editor to be the first to do a 100 foot bungee jump that ended in disaster after one of ‘forgot to tie off the end of the rope to the bridge. But though he ended up in traction at the local hospital we know he’d be pleased when he learnt that for the next few days we bonded in a day long all day drinking team building exercise. We all got absolutely slaughtered in different manner to how the characters in Severance end up also.
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 bloody office outing. A team-building weekend in the wilds of Eastern Europe descends into a deadly nightmare as the Palisade Defence team are pitched into a fight for survival against a forgotten army of bloodthirsty maniacs. If the team can survive the bear traps and treacherous pits long enough to show their guts instead of losing them, they may learn that getting slaughtered with workmates isn’t always a good idea.
Written and directed by Christopher Smith this was his follow up to his debut #Creep (2004) He landed a decent cast led by Danny Dyer and Laura Harris and supported by Tim McInnerny, Toby Stephens and Andy Nyman. In accordance with such horror films you know that each is going to end up dead in a brutal manner it’s just a matter of how and who if anyone will make it to the end. So we get limbs lopped, bodies bludgeoned along with stabbings, slashings, immolation and a beheading. The irony here is that the team building exercises they so detest are replaced by a team building they must engage with if they’ve any hope of staying alive.
Firmly in the horror comedy genre there’s much to enjoy here though the horror is never really so gnarly as to have you averting your eyes and why it’s a 15 certificate. But this Blu-ray, 4K UHD and DVD has a huge array of extras that makes this a worthy buy and includes…
Feature Commentary with Cast and Crew
New Interviews with Writer/Director Christopher Smith, and Andy Nyman
Eight Featurettes, including The Making of ‘Severance’, Being Danny Dyer, and Not So Special Effects
Behind the Scenes Footage
Deleted Scenes & Outtakes
The UHD release comes with an A3 poster and 4 art cards
The commentary is a load of fun with Dyer and Smith on top form and the interviews with Smith and Andy Nyman (who should be a household name) are very good also a wealth of anecdotes that includes an Hungarian stunt team who flouted any safety precautions at all times resulting in a coach crash driven at twice the speed it should have been for the stunt resulting in the stunt driver being hospitalized though brushing himself down in hospital and returning to the shoot. It’s a bit like hiring the Jackass team to do the stunt The featurettes are enjoyably self deprecating too with ‘Not so special effects’ and the ‘Being Danny Dyer;’ being laugh out loud funny. Severance is very much a Saturday night film and audiences are guaranteed to have as good a time as the cast reportedly did making it.
related feature : ‘Delivery Run’ – a snow plough horror film you won’t forget – actor Alexander Arnold reveals all
related feature : ‘Ghost Stories’ – DVD | BLU-RAY – REVIEW
Here’s the Severance trailer…..
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