Posh boarding school is so short of funds the headteacher allows fracking to commence in the neighbouring wood, little knowing that the resulting tremors would release some nasty beasts from under the ground.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 2, 2021

The screenplay by Crispian Mills, Henry Fitzherbert, and Luke Passmore has a very difficult time keeping focus on its through-line, digressing into tangents and unfunny beats.

| Original Score: 4 | Feb 10, 2020

If I was in high school, I would have been super happy to discover this film in the video store library.

| Sep 30, 2019

A waste of a lot of great talent, and a waste of your time, should you choose to watch it.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Sep 25, 2019

"Slaughterhouse Rulez" is just not in the same league as those early Wright/Pegg/Frost collaborations (of which this is not one).

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 29, 2019

Cursing, violence in mediocre horror-comedy.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 12, 2019

There are moments of inspired lunacy along the way, although as the whole thing devolves into a gory mess, it's never funny nor scary enough to remain compelling.

| Jul 13, 2019

It's actually a good bit of fun if one's in the mood for some teen movie shenanigans with healthy sides of monster movie tropes and ecological subtext.

| Original Score: 5.5/10 | Jun 18, 2019

The women are strong and powerful, the men are malleable, and there's more than a few gory surprises, all of which make for a good time at the movies. That's what it's really all about when it comes down to it: good, cheeky fun.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 13, 2019

Slaughterhouse Rulez is splattery, eco-terror-creature exploitation that abides by time-honored midnighter rules and misbehaves in the right (deadly) ways (when allowed).

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 24, 2019

The movie seriously could have used Pegg and his Cornetto partner Edgar Wright on scripting duties, and perhaps Wright at the helm as well.

| May 17, 2019

A star-studded cast and a high-concept premise make promises that "Slaughterhouse Rulez" ultimately can't keep.

| May 17, 2019

Slaughterhouse Rulez is a horror comedy B-movie that earns an A grade.

| Apr 16, 2019

A heavy-handed political message, a glacial pace, and a lack of both horror and comedy prevent this one from actually ruling.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 21, 2019

Slaughterhouse Rulez suffers from a lack of balance, its comedy is deafening unoriginal and its horror barely exists.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 17, 2019

The third act, though, is a blood-soaked, laugh-out-loud thrill-ride which makes amends for the film's somewhat laborious opening.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 6, 2019

The 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.

| Nov 13, 2018

It looks to me like something that lost its way in the edit... overall I think it doesn't hang together.

| Nov 6, 2018

Crispian Mills's film is made with vigour, but might attract only a narrow audience.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 5, 2018

It 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.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 5, 2018