10 Best Slasher Movies Since 2000

Christopher Smith made his directing debut with 2005’s Creep, but he really put himself on the map with this outrageous horror comedy. The plot involves a bunch of wishy washy corporate employees, in Eastern Europe on a team-building weekend, who encounter a group of bloodthirsty maniacs armed with machine guns, machetes and flamethrowers, but this is no standard-issue slasher movie.

Like all the best horror comedies, Severance works on several levels – the gags are funny, the action is crisp and the tension is never compromised by throwaway jokes or stupid supporting characters. Also, the film deserves credit for doing something considered hitherto impossible and putting Danny Dyer in a good movie.

Smith has great fun mocking conventional slasher movies, in one scene even resorting to black and white and title cards to explain the backstory. Just because it’s a comedy, though, doesn’t mean it skimps on the bloodletting – characters are decapitated, doused with gasoline and set on fire and, courtesy of an abandoned minefield, blown to pieces.