My last three horror-comedies have been all completely different from each other and have come from three different parts of the world. These films are not your classic splatstick so watch out. Slither by James Gunn was an american alien-slug-zombie comedy starring Nathan Fillion of Serenity/Firefly fame. It was thoroughly entertaining, simply put. Then came this phenomenally successful Korean movie called The Host which was not just a monster movie. The monster was very cool and totally owned Seoul but the film also had an ongoing political commentary about the US and their own government. The film's heroes – a hilariously dysfunctional family that's stuck together by the little girl in the family. They get to the rescue act together when the monster takes the girl away. The jokes in the movie would come when you least expect. One of the best from 2006 and also the biggest grossing movie in Korea ever.

And now, to the third and what this review is about. Christopher Smith from Britain brings us a unique take of it all with Severance.

A group of employees on a team building holiday in Eastern Europe get stranded in the forest. They also find that their luxury hotel is really a shady place. But check this out - there are no monsters, zombies, werewolves and the other genre regulars after them. They get hunted down one by one by a group of extremely pissed off ex-soldiers instead. So you've got the jokes on corporates among other cool ones, a minor political commentary and a dysfunctional group headed by the awesome Tim “darling” McInnerny playing the stereotypical manager.

The opening scene is brilliant. A couple of busty women being chased, get caught in the trap and this other guy choosing to run for his own life and not to help them get out. The girls, figuring they might as well climb up the trap by themselves, take off their top/shirts and make a rope out of them, only to find that it isn't long enough. They take off their pants and tie them up too. No way, not long enough. Then they decide to take off whatever is left. They then show the guy getting caught and slashed. Cut to the title sequence. A totally kickass way to set the tone for the rest of the film.

The film really begins with the aforementioned office group travelling to their hotel in their bus driven by a local. We're introduced to all the characters. They're the cream of the crop. One black guy, one uptight ugly cranky woman, one sarcastic bastard, one filthy front-bencher nerd who actually loves being on a team building trip, one hot classy woman and in the last row is our unlikely protagonist. Our man orders a couple of escorts on the internet, smokes pot in the bus toilet, eats 'shrooms and hallucinates. And to top it all, we all know that he's going nail that hot woman too. This guy is the shit.

The best scene in the film is when these guys have their breakfast the morning after they get to the scary forest hotel. Each one comes up with his/her own imaginative story behind the place. It's top-notch movie-making right there.

They, obviously, start dying one after another in cool unique ways and in the order you hate them. Edge-of-the-seat stuff with some nasty gore going on. The filthy geek, for example, gets his leg cut off and that gets played around for some good laughs.

It's later shown that the two girls were actually the escorts that our hero ordered and with them, the guy (who gets slashed in the opening scene ) was actually waiting for these office guys to land up at their real hotel. They kick some ass in the riveting final scene.

It's funny, it has got the thrills and it has its slasher/gore moments. Solid cinematography and score to boot. It really isn't as straight-forward as “The Office meets Deliverance” like most of the film's promos claim, It's not going to be a classic but watch it definitely. More recommended especially for those who liked the British zombie-comedy Shaun of the Dead.