Severance that tells us what happens when you take the characters from "The Office", send them on a team building holiday and throw in some eastern European serial killers. A little quirky, and even though the humor/horror mix is just a little off, Severance is still a pretty fun movie.

International contractor, Palisades Defense, sends seven of their employees on a team building excursion in Eastern Europe. When the road is blocked, on sage advice of the boss, the employees abandon the motor-coach and head down a heavily wooded road to find their luxury lodge. Little do they know a killer is waiting around the corner, bent on killing each of them. In proper British style, victims die with a stiff upper lip and killers kill in ridiculous ways. Don't worry though, not everyone rolls over and accepts their fate.

Severance's biggest problem is that it can't really decide if it is a dark comedy or a horror movie with brief moments of levity. There are a lot of bloody scenes but I can't think of an explicit death scene. Just before the death, the camera pulls away and sometimes returns just after the death, so it doesn't feel like a strict horror. There are a lot of attempts at comedy but only a few will leave you laughing out loud, so it doesn't feel like a sinister comedy. Director/writer Christopher Smith and writers Toby Stephens and James Moran would have benefited from having an accomplished comedic writer there to touch up the scenes that were attempting humor.

Severance isn't completely void of humor. There is a scene that will redefine the expression "Heads will roll." Later in the movie, there is a scene that made me laugh so hard at the misfortunes of the killer. The end of the movie made me laugh with reckless abandon. The scene that takes the cake involves a mini-fridge, a shoe and slippery fingers. I didn't want to laugh, because it was just wrong, but I couldn't help it! After the movie is over, stick around for the credits; they are brief but the character names of the bad guys are funny enough to make the credits worth watching.