Product Information
Seven colleagues from Palisade Defence embark on a team-building weekend away in Hungary only to find their holiday being sabotaged by a mysterious enemy.Product Identifiers
ProducerJason Newmark
EAN5060002835043
eBay Product ID (ePID)59531385
Product Key Features
ActorClaudie Blakley, Toby Stephens, David Gilliam, Laura Harris, Danny Dyer, Tim Mcinnerny
Film/TV TitleSeverance
DirectorChristopher Smith
LanguageEnglish
Run Time90 Mins
Aspect Ratio2.35 Wide Screen
FormatDVD
Release Year2007
FeaturesWidescreen, Audio commentary by Christopher Smith, James Moran, John Frankish, Danny Dyer, Tim McInnerny, Babou Ceesay, and Andy Nyman\Deleted scenes with optional commentary\Making of SEVERENCE featurette\Being Danny Dyer featurette\Not So Special Effects featurette\The Genesis of Severance featurette\The Coach featurette\Outtakes\Easter Egg - Nadia and Olga interview\The Bearpit animatics\Palisade corporate video\Alternate ending storyboard\UK theatrical trailer, Closed Caption
GenreHorror/Occult, Comedy
Additional Product Features
Number of Discs1
Certificate15
Hearing ImpairedEnglish
ComposerChristian Henson
ReviewsFHM - Brilliant horror-comedy... the gags are laugh-out-loud., Loaded - The best British horror-comedy you'll see this year.
Additional InformationSeven colleagues from Palisade Defence embark on a team-building weekend away in Hungary only to find their holiday being sabotaged by a mysterious enemy. A motley group of employees from the company find themselves abandoned in a spooky forest when their coach driver refuses to continue to their destination. The group includes sycophantic manager Richard (Tim McInnerny, Darling in BLACKADDER), driven supervisor Maggie (Laura Harris, 24), and drug-taking joker Steve (Danny Dyer, THE BUSINESS). The septet quickly get lost. After taking some Mexican magic mushrooms, Steve swears that a balaclava-clad man crept up on him. Maggie dismisses Steve's alarm as a side-effect of the hallucinogenic drugs. The group come across an unwelcoming concrete building and decide to set up base there. When one of the group discovers a room filled with files in Russian and stamped with a logo similar to Palisade's, a number of conspiracy theories are suggested. When members of the group start being tracked down by an enemy intent on violence, the group realise that one of the theories may not be so ludicrous. The first half of SEVERANCE is played as a straight comedy, making an initial impression that the film is trying to be a holiday special of THE OFFICE, albeit with broader characterisation. Much like HOSTEL, the film switches half way through and becomes a bloody and gory horror film. Christopher Smith--who made the terrifying CREEP--has made a film that is not only packed full of humour but also features some inventively nasty scenes of bloodshed.
Executive ProducerMichael Kuhn
ScreenwriterJames Moran, Christopher Smith
Sound sourceDolby Digital 5.1
Movie/TV TitleSeverance
Director of PhotographyEd Wild