[wpdevart_youtube]t_Dvh7OfMaM[/wpdevart_youtube]SLAUGHTERHOUSE RULEZ **
Dir: Crispian Mills (15, 99 mins)
The first film from Simon Pegg and Nick Frost’s new production company Stolen Pictures is a comedy horror that unfortunately is not a patch on Shaun Of The Dead. Students at posh boarding school Slaughterhouse not only have to deal with its horrific hierarchy but also with an unspeakable evil. Following headmaster Michael Sheen’s decision to allow fracking on school land, a gateway to hell has been uncovered, spewing forth various monsters who are let loose upon the privileged. Asa Butterfield, Hermione Corfield and Finn Cole are the plucky kids battling the forces of darkness with supporting roles falling to Simon Pegg as an ineffectual new teacher at the school, and Nick Frost as a local drug dealer. Writer/director Crispian Mills has collaborated with Pegg before in the underwhelming A Fantastic Fear Of Everything, and despite a promising premise, there’s a distinct lack of satirical bite, laughs or scares in a film that doesn’t pull off its intended St Trinians-meets-Hammer Horror mashup. Opens Oct 31
