A Masterpiece!

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

Severed could have been good. That is, if the director had avoided the temptation to pander to zombie clichés. After what started as an intriguing premise this film actually loses steam when the first zombie appears. The opening sequence which depicts some surprisingly well done footage of the logging industry in full detail was much more interesting than the zombie action that was to follow. Indeed, I was mildly entertained at the serious tone set at the start of the film. Angry protesters, aka tree huggers, lay in ambush for their routine harassment of the weary but resigned lumber workers who try to make their way out of the forest after a hard days work. It's a scene that you intuitively know has played out a thousand times over and thus has a feeling of authenticity.The zombies here are portrayed in a straight-forward manner. Typical make-up, blood and gore. No distinguishing mutations or behaviors. Despite the gratuitous violence there is nothing frightening about the proceedings. No special effects or CGI to liven things or provide a visual spectacle. Just regular people lurching, shaking and growling with make-up on. A by the numbers direct to video genre film with an ambiguous ensemble cast and unique but wasted setting. 4 out of 10 stars.

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.

i can see a lot of people didn't like it, but i thought Severed was pretty damn good. not the best, but not as bad as everyone is saying. and certainly a lot better then some of the other zombies movies released in the last 5 years. the effects are pretty cheesy at time, and some parts of the plot are sort of ridiculous, but you gotta expect that from this kind of movie. while none of the characters stood out too much,i thought they showed a lot of how people would act and react in such a situation. and i can see them as real people, joe and jane anybody. not like, brad pitt or someone. the zombies were a bit more... growly... then i prefer, but their walking, attacking and eating was bloody and believable. im giving it a high vote because i had expected way less and was pleasantly surprised.

When a lumberjack hacks down a tree that has been injected with an experimental growth hormone, some of the hormone gets inside an open wound and turns the merry lumberjack into a flesh-eating zombie. If you can buy that absurd premise then this zombie flick is for you. If you can't - which I had a hard time accepting it myself - then this is still a rather well-made zombie movie.JR Bourne plays a scientist who has injected the serum into a number of trees but apparently they don't label them since a lumberjack who receives his paycheck from the same company downs the tree and mutates into a zombie. When production at the site is halted, due to the zombies and not by the handful of tree-huggers on site, led by Sarah Lind, the company's President (Jerry Wasserman) sends his son Tyler out to investigate. When he arrives on site, he finds the mill deserted and ransacked but then gets attacked by zombies lurking about in the surrounding forest. He is saved by a group of survivors led by head lumberjack Julian Christopher and activist Lind. With the forest quarantined - how they quarantined a forest in under 24 hours is beyond me - they are forced to remain on site and battle the zombies.VIOLENCE: $$$$ (Plenty of violence and gore in this movie. Since the zombies are at a sawmill, the lumberjacks have chainsaws and axes at their disposal. There isn't one major character - albeit the spineless scientist played by JR Bourne - who doesn't cave in a zombies skull in this flick. Blood splatters on everybody and the zombies also get to rip into their fair amount of flesh. Not for the squeamish).NUDITY: None STORY: $$$ (The story is rather clichéd with your typical zombie film stock characters. JR Bourne plays the sniveling scientist, we also have the fatherly Ken Foree type character looking after everyone and the budding romance between the president's son and the cold-blooded activist. As the zombie attacks take their toll on the survivors, the activists and lumberjacks become friends - getting to know one another in this sci-fi turmoil).ACTING: $$$ (The acting is quite good highlighted by JR Bourne and Julian Christopher. Bourne, who has played brash assholes in Ginger Snaps Back and Thirteen Ghosts, does a great job as the cowardly scientist. Sarah Lind was effectively cold as the save-the-trees activist and Kyle Cassie hams it up quite well as a survivalist who enjoys squaring off with the zombies).