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The high concept of this British horror picture is The Office meets Hostel, though it also evokes The Most Dangerous Game in premise and The Comic Strip Presents . . . in tone (with Stephens, bizarrely, seeming to channel Rik Mayall).

A busload of employees of an arms company are driven into the Hungarian woods for a bonding weekend, and get dropped in the middle of nowhere — worrying about dangerous bears (a mild- looking creature ambles across the road unnoticed in one of the best jokes) but eventually stalked by a gang of mysterious killers.

Dyer is a touch too obnoxious to be funny, especially since his character gets a free pass from the horrible death parade, but McInnerny wins man of the match as the chinless team-leader who tries desperately to keep things going even as the corpses start piling up. He finally finds himself standing on one of the company’s own pressure-release mines.

Smith, following up the more serious Creep, manages the stalking and splattering scenes well, alternating comedy chillls with wonderful straight-on nastiness.

KIM NEWMAN

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