Severance, it's worth the trip

I've been wanting to see this one for a while. I suppose I was initially interested because I read somewhere it was like "The Office meets Shaun of the Dead" or something like that. All anyone has to do is say "The Office" and I'm interested.

So this movie, Severance, it played tonight at the Brattle here in Cambridge. My overall take on it is: it's worth the trip to the theater. Assuming you dig the occational slasher movie like I do, you should be comfortable shelling out $10 for this one, whenever it gets released here in the States.

The set-up is - big surprise - really standard: weekend office outing to an abandoned abode. But the execution, that's where the payoff is: crazed, bloodthurstly lunatics conspire to off each member of the non-wilderness friendly office party, and with deadly precision. This movie will shock you.



True, Severance has a little bit of the tone of Shaun of the Dead, and by that I mean its graphic scenes featuring the occasional decapitation and whatnot are spiked with a sense of humor. But that's it. It's not Shaun. It's just a good slasher flick with a fine sense of humor about itself.

If you have the chance to catch it at a festival, take it.