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Severance (DVD) (*)

$24.99

Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
English ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
91 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (2.35:1)

Special Features:
Alternative Footage
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Commentary
Featurette
Interactive Menu

Movie filmed in 2006 and produced in:
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Christopher Smith

Written By:
James Moran
Christopher Smith

Actors:
Toby Stephens ..... Harris
Claudie Blakley ..... Jill
Andy Nyman ..... Gordon
Babou Ceesay ..... Billy
Tim McInnerny ..... Richard
Laura Harris ..... Maggie
Danny Dyer ..... Steve
David Gilliam ..... George
Juli Drajkó ..... Olga
Judit Viktor ..... Nadia
Sándor Boros ..... Coach Driver
Levente Törköly ..... Lodge Killer
János Oláh ..... Flamethrower Killer
Attila Ferencz ..... Head-squish Killer
Bela Kasi ..... Headbutt Killer

Synopsis:

Ever since Bram Stoker gave Count Dracula a Transylvanian lineage, Eastern Europe has been a familiar setting for horror tales. 'Severance' continues the tradition by turning a corporate retreat in a Hungarian forest into a bloody game of whack-a-mole. (Team building and paintballing are so last year.) Our unsuspecting moles are a grumpy group of pencil-pushers employed by an international weapons manufacturer who find themselves marooned in a rundown lodge. Outside are land mines, bear traps and balaclava-wearing commandos; inside are spiders, rotting floorboards and a file cabinet with dusty records of the attackers, who are either asylum escapees or Balkan war criminals. Kind of a Hobson's choice, really. Briskly directed by Christopher Smith (who also contributed to the screenplay), 'Severance' overcomes its narrative deficiencies with inventive bloodletting and no small amount of wit. (A scene involving resourceful call girls and a lifeline made of lingerie is particularly impressive.)

When a weapons multinational Palisade Defense reward their European sales division with a team-building weekend in the mountains of Eastern Europe, comedy blends with horror as the team fights first among themselves, and later for survival against a group of war-crazed killers intent on revenge.

This product was added to our catalog on Wednesday 18 July, 2007.