Severance
By Mal Simons, Blockbuster.co.uk

Probably the funniest British Comedy Horror since Shawn of the Dead, Christopher Smith’s latest film since Creep is guaranteed to have you wincing and laughing in equal measures. Think ‘The Office’ crossed with ‘Deliverance’.

The tale of an office team-building in the Hungarian countryside that goes horribly wrong thanks largely to the incompetence of the office manager Tim McInnerny who first gets the group kicked off the luxury coach and then sets up camp in an abandoned shack; and to a group of insane former soldiers intent on killing anyone who crosses their path – and in particular any members of the ‘Palisades Defence’ group, a dubious business that doesn’t have lots of fans in the former Eastern Bloc.

Although a horror, Severance uses the banter between the office workers to inject real humour into the situation. Office boss Tim McInnerny, Laura Harris, Andy Nyman and Danny Dyer have perfect comedy chemistry. While they have the usual office tension, they are forced to work with each other like never before in order to survive. The humour is very black (the best moment has to be when Dyer attempts to fit a severed leg into a mini-bar!), but this all helps the audience to connect with characters and puts this film head and shoulders above others in the genre.

One of the best British films of all time and one of the funniest films you will ever see – well worth a watch.. or two, or three… a perfect movie. 10 out of 10.

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