Severed
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Severed: Forest of the Dead is a 2005 zombie
suspense horror film
directed by Carl Bessai and set in a remote logging
community following an incident where a genetic
experiment
goes wrong.
The zombies in the film Severed are similar to the standard zombie in movement, however there is a slight difference in their appearance; as opposed to having a pale and bloodless skin tone, many of the zombies have a yellow discoloration, and sport dark veins on the side of their head.
As with most zombie movies, in order to be killed, one must remove the zombie's head or destroy its brain, to quote the movie, “you have to sever the head; it’s the only way to kill them", although wounding a zombie appears to be easier than in other zombie movies.
by environmentalists. He is infected by genetically modified tree sap, causing him to turn into a zombie.
Zombie
Zombie is a term used to denote an animated corpse brought back to life by mystical means such as witchcraft. The term is often figuratively applied to describe a hypnotized person bereft of consciousness and self-awareness, yet ambulant and able to respond to surrounding stimuli...
suspense horror film
Horror film
Horror films seek to elicit a negative emotional reaction from viewers by playing on the audience's most primal fears. They often feature scenes that startle the viewer through the means of macabre and the supernatural, thus frequently overlapping with the fantasy and science fiction genres...
directed by Carl Bessai and set in a remote logging
Logging
Logging is the cutting, skidding, on-site processing, and loading of trees or logs onto trucks.In forestry, the term logging is sometimes used in a narrow sense concerning the logistics of moving wood from the stump to somewhere outside the forest, usually a sawmill or a lumber yard...
community following an incident where a genetic
Genetics
Genetics , a discipline of biology, is the science of genes, heredity, and variation in living organisms....
experiment
Experiment
An experiment is a methodical procedure carried out with the goal of verifying, falsifying, or establishing the validity of a hypothesis. Experiments vary greatly in their goal and scale, but always rely on repeatable procedure and logical analysis of the results...
goes wrong.
Premise
Zombies are on the loose somewhere in the Pacific Northwest, and our heroes must survive them.The zombies in the film Severed are similar to the standard zombie in movement, however there is a slight difference in their appearance; as opposed to having a pale and bloodless skin tone, many of the zombies have a yellow discoloration, and sport dark veins on the side of their head.
As with most zombie movies, in order to be killed, one must remove the zombie's head or destroy its brain, to quote the movie, “you have to sever the head; it’s the only way to kill them", although wounding a zombie appears to be easier than in other zombie movies.
Plot
In a remote wilderness loggers and environmental activists must join together to survive against zombies resulting from a logging company's genetic experiments in an attempt to increase lumber production which will in theory lead to a 15% increase in profit. A lumberjack is injured when cutting a tree which has been spikedTree spiking
Tree spiking involves hammering a metal rod, nail, or other material into a tree trunk to discourage logging by attempting to devalue the commercial use of the wood, reducing the economic viability of logging in the long term, while not threatening the life of the tree...
by environmentalists. He is infected by genetically modified tree sap, causing him to turn into a zombie.
Cast
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- JR Bourne as Carter
- Michael Teigen as Luke
- Leanne Adachi as Stacey
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