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Severance (2006)

Severance poster
Directed by
Christopher Smith
Genre
comedy horror, splatter film
Country
Germany, United Kingdom
Runtime
1h 36m
Rated
R
Rating
6.3 of 10 from 676 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A group of co-workers on a team-building retreat in a remote Hungarian forest is picked off one by one by a group of violent poachers. The film mixes brutal violence with dark humor as the characters try to survive their attackers.

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What happens

Severance is a 2006 comedy horror film co-written and directed by Christopher Smith. Co-written with James Moran, it stars Danny Dyer and Laura Harris. The film tells the story of a group of British and Canadian co-workers who go to a remote mountain forest in Hungary, where they become victims of murderous attacks by a group of poachers. Severance received mostly positive reviews. In 2009, media interest in the film was revived following the alleged copycat murder of a UK teenager. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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