Severed (2005)

Director:

Carl Bessai

Writers:

Carl Bessai (writer)
Travis McDonald (writer)

Genre:

Drama | Horror | Thriller

Plot:

A multi-national forestry company engages in genetic experimentation to increase logging yield in a remote section of forest...

Plot Keywords:

Zombie | Rape Attempt | Chainsaw | Blood | Logging Camp

Awards:

1 win

Cast

Paul Campbell	...	Tyler
Sarah Lind	...	Rita
Julian Christopher	...	Mac
JR Bourne	...	Carter
Michael Teigen	...	Luke
Leanne Adachi	...	Stacey
Patrick Gallagher	...	Anderson
Hrothgar Mathews	...	Eric
Jerry Wasserman	...	John
Sage Brocklebank	...	Mills
Amber Rothwell	...	Wendy
Kyle Cassie	...	Jack
Brad Sihvon	...	Tom
Colin Lawrence	...	Arnold
Zak Santiago	...	Ramon

Also Known As:

Clearing (USA) (working title)
Severed: Forest of the Dead (USA) (DVD title)

MPAA:

Rated R for horror violence and gore.

Runtime:

93 min

Country:

Canada

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

Argentina:18 | USA:R | Australia:MA

Filming Locations:

Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Company:

Forest of the Dead Productions Inc.

Movie Connections:

References "The Twilight Zone" (1959)

lifeless zombie movie, gets duller and duller

28 Days later in the woods, or in Canada. Good location and interesting lumbering footage at first, then the main character and some of the zombies act rather stupidly, then everything starts to sort of seem like the same scene over and over and you aren't even half way to the end of it all.

Characters are happy to find a truck, try to leave, can't, then go back to call on the radio for help.

Then they find another truck easily even though the first truck was supposed to be the only one. It's stuff like this, the movie perpetuates rather than develops, no one takes any logical approach to trying to save themselves.

Then the whole things grinds to a halt in the middle and suddenly they meet a bunch of new characters so we can have people sit around and talk and talk and wait and wait and wait.

Extremely grainy looking, the highlights on actors faces crawl with grain. Actors are okay, zombies seem very very hungry but the attack scenes all look like someone watched Saving Private Ryan too many times, which is easy to do I suppose.

Zombie fans will know all the rip off moments in this film, none are homages this just doesn't have much to offer after the novelty of the location runs out. Also slowing things down are several, we are so sad we just hacked a zombie to death for 2 minute type of scenes. Great drama this is not, please stop stopping to try to make us feel their pain at killing zombies? Canadian tax shelter dollars again at work, like the old days, result is pretty dam dull. Movie seems really long finally grinds to a halt right at the magic number 93 minutes. One of those shortest lengths a movie can be to be sold as a feature. It's a long ass 93 minutes.