I have just seen this film and I must say I didn't like it. Even before watching it I thought it was going be awful simply by the line in the TV advert "As witty as Shaun of the Dead". OK so SotD was a good film and I think that Severance is jumping on the bandwagon a bit.
The film spends around 30 minutes building up to any action. In this time the characters are not developed at all, except for the fact that one of them is a drug addict (That will appeal to the typical 15 rated cheap horror cinema goer) and one of them is American which is irrelevant.
We eventually see a number of the cast die by 'gruesome' means. The comedy in this film is not 'as witty as Shaun of the Dead' at all. In fact there is very little comedy in the entire film. Trying to put a leg in a fridge while pulling disgusted faces isn't really very witty at all.
People seem to just settle for very mediocre films at the moment. Sure its mildly entertaining but its nothing new. Even the action/slasher scenes are pretty lame and become tiresome. And when the Romanian 'escorts' arrive for comic relish at the end of the film and it ends with the word 'foursome' it just completely leaves it on a down ending.
To be honest I was bored throughout the film. Nothing led anywhere, the action scenes were as dull as the characters.
5/10
The film spends around 30 minutes building up to any action. In this time the characters are not developed at all, except for the fact that one of them is a drug addict (That will appeal to the typical 15 rated cheap horror cinema goer) and one of them is American which is irrelevant.
We eventually see a number of the cast die by 'gruesome' means. The comedy in this film is not 'as witty as Shaun of the Dead' at all. In fact there is very little comedy in the entire film. Trying to put a leg in a fridge while pulling disgusted faces isn't really very witty at all.
People seem to just settle for very mediocre films at the moment. Sure its mildly entertaining but its nothing new. Even the action/slasher scenes are pretty lame and become tiresome. And when the Romanian 'escorts' arrive for comic relish at the end of the film and it ends with the word 'foursome' it just completely leaves it on a down ending.
To be honest I was bored throughout the film. Nothing led anywhere, the action scenes were as dull as the characters.
5/10