Better Late Then Never

The biggest problem with this movie is it’s a little better than you think it might be, which somehow makes it worse. As in, it takes itself a bit too seriously, which makes most of the movie feel kind of dull.

Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

Blistering performances.

After investigating a strange disappearance at a logging firm, a man finds the camp's survivors and activists being stalked by bloodthirsty zombies mutated from a tree-enhancing chemical and must stop the epidemic before it spreads outside the area.This was a pretty enjoyable zombie outing, not necessarily the most original but definitely has enough good parts to keep it interesting. Enough gore gags to make for some entertaining and original kills, giving it some nice bloodshed as well, and the large number of encounters makes for some high-intensity action scenes, and coupled with the initiation of the epidemic early on, gives it a really great pace which makes for a really invigorating watch. Still, the tendency to shake and rotate the camera during every single action scene to the point of being unable to discern a single item in the frame makes for some extreme annoyance and irritability, as it's only on those scenes where you want to watch what's going on yet the filming technique makes it impossible. The rationale for unleashing the zombie epidemic is also a little weak, being a small blurb that doesn't really have any weight to it and makes no sense, but beyond those two minor gripes, it's not all that bad.Rated R: Graphic Violence and Graphic Language.

Munsters out there already know that I am not into zombie flicks, some are good but mostly it's zombie after human again and again. Here we have the same, zombies keep attacking, and it's the new breed of zombies, the fast ones, although they cripple they are fast. But for me there isn't much in Severed. Especially on the end when they ran into another bunch of survivors. You could see the love between the son and the activist coming miles away, but would you fall in love the day after your boyfriend was killed, the slut! It isn't even gory, oh yeah, the blood splatters allover the screen but off camera. The only gory parts are the parts when the zombies rip open some humans and eat their intestines. But it's better done years ago, you know, the living dead trilogy. And by using the same affect on the camera as in 28 days/weeks later doesn't help the movie too. But still I gave it a 4 the editing. If you are into zombies this is for you, otherwise don't bother.

I'd never heard of this movie before seeing it on the Zone horror channel until last night and I'm not actually surprised . It's Z grade rubbish and the only thing I'm surprised about is that some people actually enjoyed it CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR 28 DAYS LATER Some people have claimed that it rips off 28 DAYS LATER but that is slightly unfair because Alex Garland used John Wyndham's DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS for his screenplay . A man waking up in hospital , finding the world changed , meeting a female survivor , meeting up with more survivors who are flashing their house lights in the distance , escaping London , being captured by a renegade army unit who want to use the women as sex slaves where after the hero releases the monsters who attack the bad guys thereby allowing the goodies to escape all happened in the 1951 post apocalyptic novel . Garland used the exact same script structure and plot turns and the producers of SEVERED have done the same . It's not legally or technically plagiarism , though you could accuse someone of urinating all over Wyndham's grave with this screenplay . In fact triffids everywhere will be up in branches after seeing SEVERED due to its lack of quality The main problem apart from the painful lack of originality is that the director has not got a clue what he is doing and if he doesn't know what he's doing how are the audience ? Perhaps with the shaky camera work etc he thought he might be emulating Danny Boyle but Boyle will almost certainly be getting an Oscar nomination for SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE while the director here will merely be slumming for the rest of his career . Each and every shot is basically a medium close up on a face even during the action sequences and if the director didn't bother making a half decent movie then I won't bother learning what his name was

Bahumbug. After the initial set-up I was thinking that it looked liked it was going to be competent and hopefully amusing low-budget Indie horror effort. My perception changed when the jerky, in-your-face camera work came to the party. Why do that! There's better ways to get the adrenaline pumping. It was like the person behind the camera was having a mental fit, and it did become aggravating and hard to make-out what was happening. And the story just couldn't escape its formulaic staples and messy structure, despite a surprisingly effective conclusion that I didn't see coming. Still I was left unsatisfied. To bad that it sets up one vanilla flavoured, over-used cliché after another and then it drags on. Then when you thought it couldn't get anymore the same, they chuck in another sub-plot that is just as worthless and poorly drawn up. Even the clunky script leaves a lot to be desired about the token characters and their rash reactions. Pretty much the premise goes onto steal ideas from other horror movies. It wants to be serious, but the over-the-top nature of its erratic mayhem and many unintentionally laughable sequences destroy that aspect. The film has a slick look with beautiful location choices, and Carl Bessai's tight direction is dry, but it's undone by the overall execution where it succumbs to repetition and static build-ups. It seemed to want to rely on some extreme blood splashing about, and having everything move so fast. But the shocks are weak, and the suspense is never there. I thought there were some fine-tuned performances amongst the slack-jaw ones though. Nothing great, but adequate. The music surprised because it was one of the few things that clicked with its eerie chimes in a nicely arranged harmonious score.