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Anyone Else Think This Sucked?

posted 17 years ago by timechangelater
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I recently saw sevrence(spelling) now that was funny horror/killer moive with really humans as the killer.

This movie had its parts, I'll say that much, I loved peter and his screaming he could challenge some girls. The head butting rocked. But the movie sort of lost it's humor toward the end I think.

Also I hate after credit scences. No one wants to watch the credits, no one cares who the food guy is or what not. I would liked it to end where the farmer came out but Arnie men's all pulled guns on him and shot him and them it said Fin. That would have maid a good ending. I hope there are no sequals.

Well that's my 2 cents, gonna give yours now?

[–] Sailinship 17 years ago

Yeah, it was really pointless and worked on formula. It didn't even have the decency to explain itself. And the end is horrible. Why are all those people in the basement? Who cares about the guys in suits, was that scene necessary? Why did we see the mutated man at the end, did the makers think they had a chance at a sequel? Dumb and pointless movie. The only reason to watch is the girl, buxom and tough with that cool accent.

Imagine something real clever & profound here,now you think I'm cool & want to be my best friend.

[–] XOddyseeX 17 years ago

Well I just recently saw this and I thought it was awful. British horror-comedy hasn't been done right since Shaun of the Dead. Shaun of the Dead was excellent and one of my favourite films. However, The Cottage and Severance (which I also thought was awful) both fall into the same trap.

What I mean by that is they don't blend the two genres to make one coherent film, instead they make the first half of the film a comedy and the second half a horror which just doesn't work and makes it completely disjointed. And I use "comedy" in the loosest possible sence of the word because the comedy in The Cottage and Severance was not actually very funny.

The only thing The Collage was good for was giving Andy Serkis more work.

[–] Sailinship 17 years ago

I thought that SEVERANCE had funny parts, but I agree that it was definetly not a good moive, and didn't feel like whole, it was choppy. I personally think that they are just making too many horror movies.

Imagine something real clever & profound here,now you think I'm cool & want to be my best friend.

[–] horrorshowmovie 16 years ago

I liked Severance, but it wasn't great. It was a good movie though.

This wasn't as good, but still a fun movie to watch.

[–] imNOTDaveGorman 17 years ago

"The only reason to watch is the girl, buxom and tough with that cool accent".

cool accent??????? wtf?if ever there was a case to revert back to silent movies Ms Ellison is that!
and what was Andy Serkis thinking of?
there went 90 minutes of my life i'll never get back.

[–] Sailinship 17 years ago

Ahhhhh, 90 minutes of my life I'll never get back, will that one ever get old. I bet you can find that exact same quote at least 100,000 on IMDB, it's on my list of things never to say or write. I liked her accent.

Imagine something real clever & profound here,now you think I'm cool & want to be my best friend.

[–] escapedmonk 17 years ago

Ahhhhh, 90 minutes of my life I'll never get back, will that one ever get old. I bet you can find that exact same quote at least 100,000 on IMDB, it's on my list of things never to say or write. I liked her accent
by - Sailinship

Errr i think you'll find you just did write it lol

I hated her accent and everything else about her and couldnt wait for her to be killed and if she hadnt been killed i would have done it :)

[–] kimilseung 16 years ago

wow! Scouse accent is now cool! wow! again
I got to print this out and send it to people

[–] larsinii 17 years ago

when I saw severance i thought it was ok but kinda strange. this was one crappy movie,pointless and senseless from start to finish, I wonder who writes this kind of stuff...

[–] wobber999 17 years ago

This film sucked BIG TIME
all the hype for this
my buddy watched it he thought it was great
I think he was p***ed
crap crap and crap again
I thought it would be a great film
but I was extremely disappointed

[–] thegurujames 17 years ago

It was funny (I knew nothing but that it was some horror and it was susposed to be a p-take comedy)

Refreshingly different for once-everyone dies!

[–] aroop_d 17 years ago

whowww...there are post credit scenes..!!!

[–] bekstah 16 years ago

i didn't know till i read this thread too, i just watched the end of it.. worst ever lol, really not needed.. would have been better if it lifted off from what happened after the man went down into the basement and realised his situation.

[–] herrkilman 17 years ago

It sucked allright. It wasn't funny and it certainly wasn't scary. Just conventional (NOT original as some claims).

[–] justagirl_17 16 years ago

I kinda liked it not the best movie around but it did made me laugh and some scenes did have a scary atmosphere.

Same old *beep* different day

[–] JustinQPR 16 years ago

I enjoyed it, was never going to be a world beater but it definatly had it's moments.

Much more enjoyable than Severence!

[–] mrjuicy-1 16 years ago

Just finished watching this and I think it was actually pretty good. It was typical British horror, low-key and low-tech. Darkly funny, with some good central performances. What more do you want, it had pratfalls, and gore. Maybe the two elements didn't gel as well as other examples but they were still there.
Severance. It has Danny Dyer in it. Nuff said. (I haven't actually seen it. But as I said. Danny Dyer).

[–] Stink_Face 16 years ago

Reece Shearsmith just overacted and overacted and overacted - it's a shame as he's amazing on stage / league of gentlemen - was really looking forward to this but half the cast were annoying and unfunny, that fat guy was just plain bad, andy serkis was the only reason to watch this film and Mr E's boobies - I used to dislike Andy Serkis but I thin the CAN act, he's not bad at all in my books after seeing this. He held his own against this bunch of overactors BIG time.

I picked by bum . . . Now my finger smells.

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[–] freq77 16 years ago

I smirked a few times, yes it was pretty poor, disapointing concidering it was an English film with a decent cast.

[–] allseeing 16 years ago

Considering how difficult it is to produce a horror/comedy that is genuinely horrific and comedic I think this did quite well. Whilst it's not perfect I did enjoy it. Severance was an absolute pile that failed on both counts.

[–] bekstah 16 years ago

i must admit, my friend and i skipped through most of the beginning, yet we knew what was going on and what was happening, and basically skipped to the part where they were crossing the fields to the farm..
that was when it got somewhat-- interesting and eventful.
loved the British black humour, it's ever so enticing.
could have done a little less of the cursing by that woman, basically when the farmer decided to turn on her, and slice her jaw, you were essentially cheering him on from that point.
perhaps that's what we were meant to feel?
it was hard to sympathise with any of the characters or grow to like them either.
it was fun while it lasted, and the ending - not the post credits, was great.. would have liked to know more about them and why they stayed etc.

[–] mroodge 16 years ago

What're you talkin' about? It rocked!

It managed to be both funny and horrifying without sacrificing much of either genre. I would vouch that anyone who didn't enjoy it just came at it from the wrong angle.

It was an entertaining romp with awesome characters and some trippy aspects from horror. The part when he's in the village and the people follow David is probably the best example of the intention of the movie in that it's creepy and you don't know what's going on, but the slapstick and oddness of the movie makes you laugh at it without taking it too seriously.

The Cottage was not aiming to be a Shaun of the Dead, it was trying to have funny characters, slapstick comedy and gruesome, yet not 'slasher' deaths. You can't tell me that seeing whats-her-faces head get split in half was just gruesome, it made you laugh at the absurdity of it! Didn't it?

[–] bogwart-1 16 years ago

Thank goodness for *one* person who gets it. This was one of the three funniest films I've seen this year, and I don't even like most so-called comedy films.

Something that all the "yea dood it really sux" boneheads obviously missed was the constant references to other films. I suppose no big signs were put up saying 'Omen' reference coming (the rottweiler called Thorn) so the chickens just carried on clucking. To name just one reference.

And one brain-damaged soul in this thread (the OP) even says "Arnie men's all pulled guns on him and shot him and them it said Fin." But nobody shot the farmer. Not even once. Easy to mock something when you make it up as you go along.

And Mr Stink Face thinks he rather liked 'Mr E's boobies'. What can I say?

[–] saltcoatston 16 years ago

Yes, the film was terrible and saved from getting a 1 purely by Reece Shearsmith comic timing (I love the League of Gentlemen) and Andy Serkis' dead pan delivery of the more serious lines.

I could quite happily have killed that annoying boot from Iceland the second she opened her mouth, never mind gave her 45 minutes to destroy the film!

Overall, 3/10 for me.

[–] aliangel212001 16 years ago

Yes it is awful. The cast was actually pretty decent and put in good performances but the plot was rubbish and superficial. It was frightening or funny which is surely a problem for a comedy horror? Editing was off too.

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[–] JayKayTee 16 years ago

I think you'll find that the woman from the Iceland ads is Kerry Katona, not Jennifer Ellison.

You've got a crazy look in your eye... and it's really starting to freak me out.

[–] trishcal 16 years ago

When they were slowly panning up to "ARN1E" at the end, I was really waiting for a totally famous cameo.... Somebody that would have just MADE the ending just by being.... them, in the movie.

That would have been cool.

I guess it was not to be.

"There are few things fetching as Stuntman Mike." - Stuntgirl Trish

[–] seph82 12 years ago

*English is not my primary langage.

Hated it. I have nothing against British horror movies with a touch of humor, even if it is not my favorite genre (Severance, Dog house...) but this one was very poor...

[–] Iceflamez 10 years ago

Terrible movie and at this point i am becoming really skeptical with the reviews posted on imdb as i have to consider them sketchy at best.

When the movie starts relying solely on screams and profanity to redeem itself you know it will go downhill from there. The only noteworthy part of this was the gore, but that aside, headache-inducing experience.