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this years Shaun of the Dead!!! "Severance"

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this could be the film that Hostel wanted to be!!! a better double bill with Cabin Fever!!! This years Shaun of the dead!!!! this trailer looks so good.

 

 

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It looks quite good, Shaun Of The Dead is better though.

 

???? :huh:

 

talking about trailers here?

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Yeah but you put 'this years SOTD'. It doesn't look as good that's all i'm saying.

 

that was press hype to get people to look in here as a point of reference. tbh.

 

saw it tonight and was slightly disapointed. as a comedy movie think cabin fever was actually funnier and as a Christopher Smith film think Creep was better (and that was a 1 star film for most of the way, well until they killed off Vas Blackwood :lol: :lol: ). and as a horror, from the school of loud industrial and sub-goblin musical blasts with seen it all before visuals.

 

actually hostel was better, and that turned out to be more of a revenge travelogue than full-on horror in the end.

 

a missed opportunity.

 

my opinon - go see monster house with a bag of bad drugs :lol:

that was press hype to get people to look in here as a point of reference. tbh.

 

saw it tonight and was slightly disapointed. as a comedy movie think cabin fever was actually funnier and as a Christopher Smith film think Creep was better (and that was a 1 star film for most of the way, well until they killed off Vas Blackwood :lol: :lol: ). and as a horror, from the school of loud industrial and sub-goblin musical blasts with seen it all before visuals.

 

actually hostel was better, and that turned out to be more of a revenge travelogue than full-on horror in the end.

 

a missed opportunity.

 

my opinon - go see monster house with a bag of bad drugs :lol:

 

I have to totally disagree with that mate, "Severance" is a vastly better film than the shower of cliched sh!te that was "Hostel", for a start the characters in "Severance" actually weren't a totally unpleasant set of tossers (except for the Public schoolboy, who was supposed to be the unpleasant tosser, but even then he was still kinda funny). The characters were all pretty well rounded (unlike "Hostel"...) and you actually DID care about their fate... The humour was in a typically black vein, typically British humour. I especially liked the little twist in the tale and the scene with the bazooka was hilarious.... :lol:

 

8/10 from me, much better than "Creep", much better than "Hostel"....

 

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8/10 from me, much better than "Creep", much better than "Hostel"....

 

Creep was only better as it included a nasty death for Vas Blackwood :lol: any film gets extra marks for that, even if its a one star film :lol: :lol:

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I have to totally disagree with that mate, "Severance" is a vastly better film than the shower of cliched sh!te that was "Hostel", for a start the characters in "Severance" actually weren't a totally unpleasant set of tossers (except for the Public schoolboy, who was supposed to be the unpleasant tosser, but even then he was still kinda funny).

 

 

however the problem i might have had with it was that the benchmarks on the comedy side when discussed in the press were very high, like Shaun of the Dead and The Office (inc both versions).

 

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When was this out? Is it still being shown at the cinema coz we've got free tickets I think.

 

Opened on Friday the 25th, so it should be at your local.... :)

however the problem i might have had with it was that the benchmarks on the comedy side when discussed in the press were very high, like Shaun of the Dead and The Office (inc both versions).

 

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/fa/Stevecarelloffice.jpg

 

That's the critics though saying those things, I dont think you'd find the film-makers themselves making such grandiose claims. And anyway, "The Office" comparisons arent entirely wide of the mark, Tim McInerney's character is just as utterly tragic and pathetic as David Brent, but in a different way....

 

I dont see where the "Shaun of the Dead" comparisons really come in though.... "Severance" is an entirely different film...

Opened on Friday the 25th, so it should be at your local.... :)

 

Oh right, thanks. There's probably more chance of it being on at this cinema about 20 minutes drive away because it's much bigger and my town's little one takes ages before it shows new films.

How does Hostel try to be like Severance? Severance is a tounge-in-cheek Horror, Hostel was a serious HorrerThriller, with a message...

How does Hostel try to be like Severance? Severance is a tounge-in-cheek Horror, Hostel was a serious HorrerThriller, with a message...

 

And the 'message' of "Hostel" was....? I for one certainly could not take "Hostel" as a 'serious' Horror film at all, poor acting, even poorer characterisation and a "plot" barely worthy of the description....

 

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That's the critics though saying those things, I dont think you'd find the film-makers themselves making such grandiose claims. And anyway, "The Office" comparisons arent entirely wide of the mark, Tim McInerney's character is just as utterly tragic and pathetic as David Brent, but in a different way....

 

I dont see where the "Shaun of the Dead" comparisons really come in though.... "Severance" is an entirely different film...

 

 

well maybe thats why i was disappointed by the film (and also the trailer makes it look like its gonna be the best British horror film ever, maybe even better then something like the Descent).

 

for me think i agree with this review the most :down:

 

 

Peter Bradshaw

Friday August 25, 2006

The Guardian

(two stars out of 5)

 

Here is a new British horror film from director Christopher Smith, who made Creep, the scary movie set on the London underground. This new one is slickly made, respectably acted, lubricated with comedy and machine-tooled to sell nicely into its niche market. There are many in the industry who think this sort of shrewdly managed product is precisely what the British movie-world should be coming up with, as opposed to all those sub-Loach kitchen-sink miseryfests. They could be right. Yet, for me, Severance lacked a certain spark.

 

It is about a squabbling bunch of white-collar workers from the home counties (and one blond American) who have been bussed into the Hungarian forest for some team-building and paintballing exercises. They soon find out that the neo-Transylvanian horrors of central Europe are much more pressing than any previous worries they might have had. It is being billed as "Deliverance meets The Office" - a tellingly misleading description. There are one or two funny lines in Severance, and they are well handled by Danny Dyer and also Andy Nyman, whose cult status as a close-up magician of genius is being eclipsed by his growing career in comedy. But basically this is a violent horror movie, whose every stabbing and bludgeoning has been calculated to beef up disc sales, because it is surely the DVD market where Severance will find its (lucrative) place.

Tim McInnerny is the Brent-ish manager, wittering and nanny-ing away at the resentful troops. He heads the UK division of an American arms company called Palisade, which has sold an awful lot of product in this part of the world. Claudie Blakley is Jill, a rather right-on weapons design manager who is trying to develop a non-harmful landmine that immobilises troops without killing them. Laura Harris is Maggie, a cool person, bemused by all the uncool idiots she's surrounded with; Babou Ceesay is Billy, shyly in love with her; Andy Nyman is Gordon, the nerdish yes-man. Toby Stephens is a derisive executive - a weirdly small part for this substantial young star. And Danny Dyer is Steve, the outrageously laddish junior who gets out of his head on magic mushrooms, sold to him by a border guard.

 

The basic implausibility of the setup, that weird, niggling wrongness for which there are not enough compensatory laugh-lines, would surely not pass muster in any small-screen script overseen by Ricky Gervais or Armando Iannucci, and there are in fact very few British movies that successfully channel the spirit of our best television comedy. Chris Cooke's low-budget One for the Road, with its paintballing middle-managers, has some of this. Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg's Shaun of the Dead is another outstanding example, at heart a feature-length episode of Spaced and none the worse for it. But that was essentially a comedy with a genre-horror theme. In the United States, where it was a rip-roaring success, it was taken the other way around: as a horror movie with a comedy flavour, and this I think might have been a bit of an inspiration for Severance.

 

There are good moments, mainly relating to the grotesque nightmare of Gordon getting his leg cut off by one of the man-traps that various malign forces have scattered about the forest. Steve has to put the severed limb in the onboard fridge in an attempt to keep it viable for surgical reattachment. Later, he has the deathless line: "Oh sorry Gordon, mate, I left your leg on the coach!"

 

But really it is a question of everyone just getting picked off by brutal killers who are without identity or motive, like zombies, and the backstory for them is lazily vague. The one genuinely disquieting moment is when a bear lollops across the road behind the cast. It only happens once. Maybe there was a bear wrangler on location, or maybe they just happened to catch it on camera.

 

Anyway, director Smith plugs capably away at the genre. Perhaps it should be called Perseverance.

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And the 'message' of "Hostel" was....? I for one certainly could not take "Hostel" as a 'serious' Horror film at all, poor acting, even poorer characterisation and a "plot" barely worthy of the description....

 

i think a lot of the critics wouldnt take many of the recent popcorn slash and stalk horrors that seriously, its only the more psychological ones that make the grade

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Anyone seen it? If so is it any good... :unsure:

 

 

Cause I'm seeing it tonight ^_^

It's a very good film which breathes a fair bit of fresh air into the tired old horror cliche of getting a half dozen people trapped in the woods with a psycho on the loose. It has strong characterisation and strong acting, particularly from Danny Dyer and Tim McInerney and a good sense of unforced humour which comes from the characters and the script rather than try to go down the "Scream" route of 'hey, look it's a horror movie taking the p*** out of horror movies'. Ignore all the "Shaun of the Dead" comparisons because they dont really hold much water....

 

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