Quartile rating: 5.5/10 · 1 rating
An illustrious British boarding school becomes a bloody battleground when a mysterious sinkhole appears at a nearby fracking site unleashing unspeakable horror.
Slaughterhouse Rulez is a fairly formulaic genre mashup that combines British boarding school comedy with creature-feature horror in a way that feels like a lesser Edgar Wright imitation. The Simon Pegg and Nick Frost involvement raises expectations the film doesn't quite meet. The premise has modest novelty in its fracking-sinkhole angle and social satire, but the execution is uneven and derivative of better genre hybrids. Acting is decent with a capable ensemble, and the cinematography is competent if unremarkable. The ending fizzles rather than delivers a satisfying payoff, and the plot struggles to balance its tonal ambitions.