Rish Outfield's reviews
A young scientist is trying to carry on his dead father's work on limb regeneration. His overbearing mother has convinced him that he murdered his own father, and is monitoring his progress for her own evil purposes. Well, our young doctor uses reptilian DNA he extracts from a large Muppet, and when his arm is conveniently ripped off a few minutes later, he injects himself with his formula and grows a new arm. . . . But the arm is evil!!!!!
Really folks, if you read the above, I don't have to tell you that this was a pretty crappy movie. All you have to know is that it was made by the folks behind Fangoria magazine and that it's simply awful. I alternated between considering the movie sick and considering it stupid, and I still can't decide which it is more.
There was some seriously gay narration throughout that bothered me more the longer it went on. Old "Saturday Night Live" alum Garrett Morris wasn't too bad. Neither was Oliver Reed. KNB did the makeup, which is pretty good most of the time. Daniel Licht did the music-–I don't know why I'm telling you this, but I'm telling you. I could smell an unbelievably stupid happy ending coming, and guess what? I was right. That WAY sucked, kids. The tacked-on narration and bookends didn't help at all, and just made it longer. There was some sick/stupid stuff with the severed arm acting and looking like a snake. The stupid mother was a psycho, making disturbingly incestual overtures and basically creeping me out. In fact, there was something decadent and European about all this, but I couldn't put my severed finger on it.
So, is Severed Ties more sick or more dumb? That's the debate here, folks. Fangoria Films produced this abomination that's worst crime is that it's no fun. I'd avoid it if I were you, but hey, Warning Goes Unheeded is a pretty popular Skull.

Total Skulls: 16

Sequel
Sequel setup
Rips off earlier film
Horror film showing on TV/in theater in movie
Future celebrity appears
Former celebrity appears
Bad title
Bad premise
Bad acting
Bad dialogue
Bad execution
MTV Editing
OTS
Girl unnecessarily gets naked
Wanton sex
Death associated with sex
Unfulfilled promise of nudity
Characters forget about threat
Secluded location
Power is cut
Phone lines are cut
Someone investigates a strange noise
Someone runs up stairs instead of going out front door
Camera is the killer
Victims cower in front of a window/door
Victim locks self in with killer
Victim running from killer inexplicably falls
Toilet stall scene
Shower/bath scene
Car stalls or won't start
Cat jumps out
Fake scare
Laughable scare
Stupid discovery of corpse
Dream sequence
Hallucination/Vision
No one believes only witness
Crazy, drunk, old man knows the truth
Warning goes unheeded
Music detracts from scene
Death in first five minutes
x years before/later
Flashback sequence
Dark and stormy night
Killer doesn't stay dead
Killer wears a mask
Killer is in closet
Killer is in car with victim
Villain is more sympathetic than heroes
Unscary villain/monster
Beheading
Blood fountain
Blood hits camera
Poor death effect
Excessive gore
No one dies at all
Virgin survives
Geek/Nerd survives
Little kid lamely survives
Dog/Pet miraculously survives
Unresolved subplots
"It was all a dream" ending
Unbelievably happy ending
Unbelievably crappy ending
What the hell?