Slaughterhouse Rulez

Time Out by

Mills stages the B-movie mayhem with gleeful abandon and geysers of blood.

The Guardian by Andrew Pulver

Crispian Mills directs with zip, throwing things together with a breathlessness that largely distracts from the fact that, for a horror-comedy, Slaughterhouse Rulez is neither particularly scary nor especially funny. But it does have an amiable sort of charm.

Empire by Kim Newman

Showing more enthusiasm than aptitude, this earns ‘could do better if it tried’ on its report card — but it’s a strange enough genre mix to be vaguely worth a look.

Los Angeles Times by Noel Murray

There’s nothing particularly awful about the film (title aside), but it never develops into the “Shaun of the Dead”-like social satire it strains to be.

The Telegraph by Tim Robey

The school isn’t specific enough and the horror isn’t weird enough: on both fronts, it’s so broad it could practically be a Norfolk waterway.

Screen Daily by Wendy Ide

This sloppy horror comedy under delivers on both shocks and laughs.