Rating of
2/4
"Severance" by Yojimbo
Yojimbo - wrote on 03/31/12
A group of office workers on a team building exercise in the Hungarian woods gets lost and end up being stalked by a band of militaristic psychopaths. This British horror comedy has one flaw but unfortunately, it's a fatal one. It's not that funny. Danny Dyer has a smattering of mildly amusing lines but otherwise it's just a gory slasher flick and as such is pretty much plotless and has little in the way of character development. If anything, the horror side of things is TOO successful. The effects are very good but the effect is that it's a bit too gruesome to be funny because it's TOO realistic. Evil Dead 2 and Ichi were funny because they were so over the top and Saun had a tremendously witty script. This is a half way house that can't quite make up it's mind what it's meant to be. Well executed, but ultimately just not funny enough to be successful as a comedy and too lacking in plot to be successful as a thriller.
