Slaughterhouse Rulez

Genre: Comedy Horror, Horror, Comedy
Rating: 15
Warnings: Some Gore, Some Child Abuse, Homophobia, Suicide

Fair warning - while this is a Nick Frost and Simon Pegg comedy love letter to horror and nerdery, it isn't a Edgar Wright masterpiece. It's good, it's fun, it's stuffed to the brim with references, but if you're expecting perfection you will be disappointed. This is a great film but not the instant classics both actors have previously been involved in.

Another fair warning is due, as the public school setting is accurately portrayed with abusive bullying, some homophobic bullying and a couple of slurs (despite being in a house called Sparta, who were notably into same-sex warrior relationships) and suicide references as a core plot point. There's a lot of gore, all rather cheesy, and tonnes of violence.

When the name of the film itself is a reference to two others (the book Slaughterhouse-Five and the film The Cider House Rules) it's practically a Where's Wally of references. References to Harry Potter abound, and the dialogue references Goodbye, Mr Chips, 300, Freaks, Braveheart. and even Fifty Shades of Grey.

The plot is simple and classic; working class boy goes to public school, and his fish-out-of-water story is disrupted by a monster attack. Three doomed romance subplots, some character rivalries and a Chekhov's lighter; Pegg, Frost and Sheen are having a whale of a time under writer and director Crispian Mills. 

It's pretty funny, it's a little bit scary, and it's exciting. Well worth an afternoon.