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.

As a complete fanatic for zombie movies Severed is better than,shall we say Stripper Zombies or Redneck Zombies but nowhere near as good as my personal favorite Dawn of the Dead(1978).Yes it is cliché filled and predictable,but is well paced.I give it 8 stars for the standout performance of Sarah Lind and the fact she is absolutely HOT!Fighting caged zombies ala Day of the Dead and Land of the Dead is not an original idea as shown in Severed.Character "Carter" played well by JR Bourne seemed awfully similar "Carter J. Burke" in Aliens as the sniveling company man but was still entertaining.As usual the likable black guy "Mac" played by Julian Christopher is killed off.The action although well paced is also familiar to 28 days Later.Oh yeah did i mention Sarah Lind is HOT!!!

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

The woods of British Columbia are the setting for the zombies that arise out of the evil timber company's messing with Mother nature. They put some chemical in the trees to make them grow. A logger gets cut and the sap from the tree gets on him. Off we go.Not only are the loggers turning into zombies, but the eco-warriors that are trying to save the trees are also getting bit.One dude, in particular, is so obnoxious and whiny that I cannot wait until he gets eaten. Of course, he manages to save his own sorry butt when his friends are being attacked.It is all bloody and gory like a zombie movie should be, but it has a familiar ring to it (28 Days later?).I still don't get the ending.