Super-smart Horror Film Hits Theaters Tonite

Alas, Brit director Christopher Smith's Severance, which opens in NYC today, doesn't have the marketing budget to compete with studio releases. But if you have a thing for quick-witted, not-quite-spoofy and genuinely scary new-form horror, run, don't walk, etc. This slasher's got plenty of gore, witty repartee and some nice political context: the victims being stalked, Deliverance-style, are hapless execs from a greedy multinational arms company on a team-building retreat. Ha! Check here for playdates, and if Severance won''t be screening at a multiplex near you, you can at least play its online game, in which you kick a severed head towards a torture victim.