Destined to be loved by very undiscerning teenage boys everywhere, Slaughterhouse Rulez is a comedy-horror featuring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, but this is definitely no Shaun Of The Dead. Starting off with lazy stereoptypes and pantomime performances aplenty, the film soon develops into a very generic and unadventurous creature-feature that mostly fails to surprise, engage or amuse, to the extent of deploying Nick Frost in yet another unfunny comedy-drug-dealer role and Michael Sheen in an unwieldy over-the-top performance as the headteacher. There are long sections during which tumbleweeds roll across the auditorium, and it takes an age before the action really rolls out, but towards the end there are some limited but decent creature FX. This is a simple, undemanding film that delivers very little.
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