There are lots of detailed reviews and info on IMDb so I'll keep it short and sweet. If you're a fan of the genre and can watch this for free on a streaming service or TV channel then go for it. There's gore, some interesting concepts and characters. Its low budget and wont be to everyone's taste but if you accept it for what it is then you'll enjoy. I could pick It to bits but lets be honest this will never be a cult classic (sorry).It didn't blow my mind but it also didn't make me want to blow my brains out!Worth a watch for Zombie fans...

I watched Severed on you-tube, on a Sunday to cure my boredom. Before I started watching the movie, I guessed that it was going to be cheesy and low budget. I was surprised by this movie, 6 out of 10.If your a fan of zombie movies this movie is for you! You don't see to many zombie films taking place in a forest. The film was shot very well and had a good actors. None of the cast is recognizable though. The only thing I had a problem with was that a lot of scenes dragged out, mostly towards the end. The film has a pretty good gore level but not too extreme. The zombies seem pretty legit and well played, good make-up effects.I say check out Severed if you have the time, don't rush though.

Well there are a few good things I can say for a free movie on YouTube, but having great gore ain't one of them. In one of the scenes where zombies are feeding on a corpse, there was an OBVIOUS time they used spaghetti. Yes, spaghetti. May I also add that was the only time there was gore in the movie. Characters swinging axes and various weapons never show the impact, but show profound amounts of blood. Acting was bad, the storyline at the cabin house was just dreadful, and I don't mean in a scary way... or maybe I do. The storyline overall was just milked--tree sap that induces zombie syndrome? Overused props and sets, the only fair actors were Carter, the paranoid person of the group, and Mac, the leader. Rita had clearly acted screams, and so did the first person who got infected. Terrible gaining in the footage, as well.

Severed was available for rent at my local Blockbuster for some time and I was finally able to get a hold of it. Severed tells the story of a zombie outbreak at a logging station way up north where...well...there isn't really anything else around. The logging firm has injected their trees with an artificial growth serum to gain higher yields and profits. In the first few minutes of Severed, a lumberjack saws through a tree that has been "spiked" by logging-protesters at the isolated camp and the sap in the tree mixes with the blood of the lumberjack. Zombie carnage ensues. Severed does not really bring anything new to the zombie genre besides perhaps setting, however, the movie was surprisingly entertaining. It's not that I expected it to be bad, I rather assumed it would be on par with say a Sci-Fi channel feature (sorry to offend any Sci-Fi addicts). The acting, dialog, and special effects were all well done in this film and the pacing helped keep the movie from getting boring. The action as well as the blood flow remains constant throughout the film and at times there are some really tense moments (there is an intense sequence were a group of zombies move in on some protesters who have chained themselves to a tree). The gore was also well done with some scenes displaying some good munching while other simply highlight blood-splatter with quick camera motions (28 Days Later style). The zombies were very convincing and quite gruesome looking as well, props to the make-up artist. Purists will enjoy the fact that these zombies are not "runners;" they shamble around George Romero-style instead of sprinting after victims like Zach Snyder's zombies.Overall, Severed is a good zombie flick. The ending seems somewhat incomplete, but leaves a bit up to the imagination which isn't always so bad. The characters, although cliché, play their roles well keeping it from falling into the so-bad-it's-good zombie movie category. It's simply good. This combined with the well done (even if "borrowed" at points) attack/gore sequences make Severed an extremely enjoyable zombie flick for either the die-hard genre fan or anyone interested in an enjoyable late-night horror flick. I have since purchased the DVD and would recommend it to either of the above.