Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Severance (2006)

The sales department for a weapons company on their way to a team building retreat at a luxury lodge in Hungary, finds themselves alone after their bus driver refuses to drive down a dirt road that their boss believes is a short cut.

The group arrives at a large industrial building which their boss insists is the luxury lodge, but turns out to be an old asylum where Soviet soldiers who were psychotic killers were housed.

The group soon realizes someone is in the woods watching them and factions split as to whether to leave or hold tight. Then the killings begin and everyone is fighting for their lives.

The movie is advertised as a horror comedy, but I disagree. This is a horror film that has some funny lines, but it is not a comedy in any sense of the word, not even a dark comedy.

Also there is the inexplicable stabbing dream. Anyone can have a strange dream, but in the context of the movie, I have no idea why this was thrown in there.

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