
A mom signs her teenage son, Don, up for a co-ed boarding school that looks more like a castle in the English countryside. Seeing a photo of cute Clemsie, Don agrees to go there. The school's name, Slaughterhouse, is a warning of what awaits - pecking order and much worse. Fracking is taking place near the school resulting in earthquakes, sinkholes, methane leaks etc. Anti-fracking demonstrators camp in the woods.... (Full plot summary below)
Enjoy FREE movies and series with your Prime (USA) subscription or when you start a 30-day free trial!
Links compiled using automated software. Availability of offers subject to change / might be region specific / out of date.
A mom signs her teenage son, Don, up for a co-ed boarding school that looks more like a castle in the English countryside. Seeing a photo of cute Clemsie, Don agrees to go there. The school's name, Slaughterhouse, is a warning of what awaits - pecking order and much worse. Fracking is taking place near the school resulting in earthquakes, sinkholes, methane leaks etc. Anti-fracking demonstrators camp in the woods.
Leave your thoughts about Slaughterhouse Rulez.
| The Mail on Sunday (UK)Matthew BondIt takes a while to find its stride as fracking begins in the grounds of the frightfully posh Slaughterhouse School but is very funny - and spectacularly gory - once it does. |
| Metro (UK)Anna SmithEvery cliché is an intentional parody but while there's enough suspense and humour to pass the time, this isn't as clever as previous Pegg/Frost/Wright classics such as Shaun Of The Dead. |
| Film InquiryLinsey SatterthwaiteThe horror element from the creatures fails to produce any effective jumps or scares and there is no sense of high stakes involved in the fate of a bunch of, mostly unlikeable, characters. |
| GuardianAndrew PulverSlaughterhouse Rulez, for a horror-comedy, is neither particularly scary or especially funny. But it does have an amiable sort of charm. |
| Daily Mail (UK)Brian VinerUnless you're fed up with comedy-horror films which blend Tom Brown's Schooldays with Jurassic Park, then you might like the thoroughly bonkers Slaughterhouse Rulez... |
| Times (UK)Ed PottonA fracking-related subplot is possibly a step too far in the name of topicality, and the monsters look like the offspring of the dog from Ghostbusters and a blancmange. But it's good, if not exactly clean, fun. |
| Independent (UK)Geoffrey MacnabBits are good, bits are bad and quite a lot is plain baffling but the overall effect is invigorating. |
| Kermode & Mayo's Film ReviewMark KermodeIt looks to me like something that lost its way in the edit... overall I think it doesn't hang together. |
| StarburstPaul MountThe jokes are lame, laboured and signposted or just not funny, and the meat of the story -- the creatures emerging from the sinkhole -- takes far too long to arrive to finally kick the film out of its torpor. |
| Time OutMark SalisburyLoud, brash, and almost entirely laugh-free. |