10 Horror Movies That Embarrassed Other Movies Released At The Same Time

10. Severance EMBARRASSED Shrooms

2007 horror Shrooms follows a group of American students who take a trip to Ireland and get lost in the woods after taking various mind-altering substances. The guide deploys a ghost story about the empty children's home nearby, which was stalked by a violent and sadistic monk. Soon, the group are being hunted by a psychotic killer and get picked off one by one. Good enough. Forgettable enough. And that's all, she wrote.

Or is it?

Doing the rounds a year before was the Danny Dyer vehicle Severance, which followed a group of work colleagues who take a trip to mainland Europe and get lost in the Hungarian woodlands. A story is deployed of the lodge they're staying in, which was previously a mental institution whose inmates were gassed by the Russians, and which was left with a murderous lone survivor. The group ingest various substances and soon encounter a psychotic killer.

Though the films swerve down different routes for the killer's reveal, the parallels between them are too much of a muchness to deny. But, as is so often the way with these things, only one reigns triumphant. While Severance is nobody's idea of horror film royalty, it has achieved status as a schlocky cult classic.

Severance leaves Shrooms with a slapped-red face thanks in no small part to its British humour, tongue-in-cheek approach and, of course, Dyer's reliably hammy performance.