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zingy
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Severance
SeveranceQuote: Severance (2006) is a British comedy horror film, written by James Moran, directed by Christopher Smith, and starring Danny Dyer and Laura Harris. In 2009, media interest in the film was revived following the alleged copycat murder of a UK teenager.
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Thu Aug 10, 2006 9:56 am |
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Dr. Lecter
You must have big rats
Joined: Sat Oct 16, 2004 4:28 pm Posts: 92093 Location: Bonn, Germany
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B+
This is another British horror-comedy that should be a must-see for all horror fans. Good, even though not very likeable characters, some nice gore (watch out for the bear trap scene - hilarious!) and great situation comedy. I saw it at the world premiere during the Fantasy Film Festival here in Germany and I believe it is hitting US cinemas this month (or already did), so go and check it out. It's really, really good fun. Not scary, but somewhat suspenseful and throughly funny. The only part I didn't like was the beginning part. The first 30 minutes or so drag and are a bit dry.
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Fri Aug 11, 2006 9:53 pm |
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Gulli
Jordan Mugen-Honda
Joined: Mon May 01, 2006 9:53 am Posts: 13400
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A decent addition to the British Horror-Comedy genre. The wisecracks have a typically dry English edge and all the characters are pleasingly quirky in their own small ways. The Horror sections are more gory and messy then out-right scary but they are very enjoyable, (including a section that could have been lifted straight from Hostel but was actually good this time).
Well worth a look.
B+
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Mon Aug 28, 2006 8:30 pm |
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Dr. Lecter
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I was surprised to see the villain from Die Another Day in it and then even more surprised when he was offed this early in the movie.
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Tue Aug 29, 2006 1:21 am |
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Gulli
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There was quite a mix of actors. I recognised most of them from British TV and that girl from 24 as well.
I loved the way OTT cheery music was used in certain scenes, especially the "mishap" with the rocket launcher.
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Tue Aug 29, 2006 4:10 pm |
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Dr. Lecter
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Gullimont-Kyro wrote: There was quite a mix of actors. I recognised most of them from British TV and that girl from 24 as well.
I loved the way OTT cheery music was used in certain scenes, especially the "mishap" with the rocket launcher.
I saw the film at a festival, so the theatre was sold out with genre fans. It got tons of laughter and applause during the rocket launcher scene. Seriously, my stomach hurt after that one.
I also loved their three versions of the backstory.
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Tue Aug 29, 2006 10:07 pm |
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Gulli
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Unfortunately the theatre I saw it at was nearly empty , I've noticed that trend were I live, horrors normally get pretty bad attendences outside of Dublin.
I loved the backstories as well especially they way they were shown.
The ribbing of American motivation technques was scarily close to how it is in reality as well.
The ending felt a little abrupt thou. Not sure now it could have ended but it wasn't the best way, maybe I just enjoyed it so much that I didn't want it to end.
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Wed Aug 30, 2006 4:01 pm |
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Dr. Lecter
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The part I didn't like were the first 30 minutes or so. Typically British, very dry...not necessarily my thing, however. After that it was a blast. It deserves more success. To be honest, I liked it more than Shaun of the Dead.
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Wed Aug 30, 2006 10:56 pm |
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Bradley Witherberry
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A little late to the party, but HEY! Severance was bloody good fun -- a macabre comedy, or MacComedy as we like to call it down @ the morgue...
It definitely has at least three laugh out loud hilarious scenes, and as many genuinely horrifying ones. Unlike the ad's comparisons it doesn't go with the formal genres of werewolves and zombies, but rather parodies and amplifies a kind of hybrid Hostel/Ten Little Indians/slasher flick...
The actors were plenty good for this kind 'o fun and the premise was pleasantly current what with the terrorists and corporate training and all. And best of all -- it kept surprising me. Yeah, I know -- it could have gone almost any direction, but there was an urgent logic running under the skin of this beast. If it wasn't for the explicit comedy artery keeping the laughs flowing, it actually makes for a splendiferous real life horror movie...
Yup... this one's the real deal -- a quality horror/comedy that will bear up to repeated rewatchings...
6 out of 5.
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Thu Jun 07, 2007 12:40 am |
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Dr. Lecter
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bradley witherberry wrote: It definitely has at least three laugh out loud hilarious scenes, and as many genuinely horrifying ones.
The plane/missle scene is definitely one of them.
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Thu Jun 07, 2007 10:10 am |
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Bradley Witherberry
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Dr. Lecter wrote: bradley witherberry wrote: It definitely has at least three laugh out loud hilarious scenes, and as many genuinely horrifying ones.
The plane/missle scene is definitely one of them.
...and the pie...
(Shame no one's going to see this one -- it's closing after just one week at my theatre, and when I saw it there was just one other person in a 375 seat auditorium...)
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Thu Jun 07, 2007 12:10 pm |
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Dr. Lecter
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Too bad, one of the best representatives of the genre I've seen in a while.
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Thu Jun 07, 2007 12:15 pm |
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Gulli
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I'm amazed this didn't get a proper American release, its a pity for sure.
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Thu Jun 07, 2007 12:24 pm |
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trixster
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Joined: Wed Oct 13, 2004 6:31 pm Posts: 19697 Location: ville-marie
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I quite want to see it, but I doubt it's coming to my city.
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Thu Jun 07, 2007 7:08 pm |
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MovieDude
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Re: Severance
Man I wish I had seen this one in a big sold out theater of horror fans. Instead, watching it with a friend alone really made it a quiet experience. Unfortunately I didn't get nearly as much out of it as you guys did. Other than the DAD villian's early demise there wasn't anything surprising about this one, and the scene where blond chick is hanging while druggie fights off so many bad guys really got a bit incredulous for me. Still, I did like a lot of the humor and it went down easy enough.
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Mon Oct 22, 2007 3:29 am |
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Magic Mike
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Re: Severance
I thought it was great. Very clever and funny. A must for fans of Shaun of The Dead and Hot Fuzz.
8/10 (A-)
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Mon Oct 22, 2007 12:00 pm |
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Dr. Lecter
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Re: Severance
Anyone else got to see this small fun flick?
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Thu Dec 27, 2007 1:54 pm |
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trixster
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Re: Severance
I didn't like it much. It's not nearly as clever or funny as it thinks it is, and the horror violence seems disturbing and mean-spirited instead of mocking and over-the-top. The dialogue really isn't that sharp at all, and the characters are either incredibly unlikeable or just plain bland. There's only a few minutes of side-splitting humour (the rocket/plane being the highlight), and there's some moments of sly comic brilliance (loved the three different stories told), but it just turns into the very thing it's trying to mock by the end. The villains are too real and too human to be properly made fun of, and thus any joke involving them just falls flat. It's not nearly funny enough to be labeled a hybrid, so instead it's just a horror with some black comedy elements. Shame.
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Dr. Lecter
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Re: Severance
Ah, too bad you didn't like it.
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Re: Severance
I thought that was kind of great.
It was funny but also pretty suspenseful at a number of points throughout, and yes, that rocket launcher scene was all kinds of amazing. I've liked Laura Harris for a while (Dead Like Me is a big factor in that) and Danny Dyer has a certain dirty, anti-pretty boy thing that makes him pretty hot so their presence certainly didn't hurt. Aside from them, though, I really enjoyed the whole cast and didn't think any of them were particularly unlikeable. They all had personalities and things to them to not just make them fodder, which was nice.
The fact that Maggie wasn't some lame-ass, typical horror-movie chick who needed to be saved all the time was a huge plus. That scene where they exit and find a whole bunch of killers only for her to completely handle it was a favorite and I liked that the one time she did get saved (that I can remember, anyway) it was by that escort chick.
Great movie, an easy B+ (maybe A material on future viewings, depending on how well it holds up)
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Mister Ecks
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Re: Severance
Finally saw this. Really enjoyed it. As others have said, a nice addition to the British Horror Comedy genre.
***/****
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Heinrich Himmler
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Re: Severance
i saw this for the third time yesterday, on pro7maxx, but i still don't like it.
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Algren
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Re: Severance
Saw it back in 2006. It's a great film actually. Funny and bloody. Not a patch on Dog Soldiers, though. I'm feeling like I want to watch it again.
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