Severed (2005)
8/10
Entertaining and enjoyable effort
25 February 2013
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.
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