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A historic boarding school comes under attack from subterranean monsters
Slaughterhouse Rule
Dir: Crispian Mills. UK. 2018. 104mins
The basic premise is quite appealing: a group of over-privileged teenagers from an elite public school are terrorised by subterranean monsters that look like entrails with badly fitted dentures. But for all the gung ho fx and severed limbs, this sloppy horror comedy under delivers on both shocks and laughs. And an environmental message - the monsters are stirred by the reckless rape of the countryside by a fracking company - feels tokenistic rather than motivated by genuine concerns.
The characters seem to be mainly doing battle with a few too many underdeveloped story strands
The film is executive produced by Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, under their new film and television production banner, Stolen Picture. While the Pegg and Frost names - both also appear in the film - will be a key marketing tool, the film lacks the distinctive, knowing humour...