Slaughterhouse Rulez reviews roundup: What are critics saying about the horror-comedy?

Slaughterhouse Rulez follows Don Wallace, a wide-eyed new boy from a modest background who finds himself at Slaughterhouse Academy.

The school is a baffling new world of arcane rules and rituals, presided over by sadistic sixth formers.

Matters of status are aggressively enforced, but this ancient and ordered world is about to be shaken to its foundations – literally.

A controversial frack site on prize school woodland causes seismic tremors, a mysterious sinkhole and an unspeakable horror to be unleashed.

Here is what critics thought of Slaughterhouse Rulez:

The movie currently holds a critics rating of just 25 percent on Rotten Tomatoes.

However, the audience score is a whopping 92 percent.

Anna Smith gave it three out of five stars for Metro.

She wrote: “Every cliché is an intentional parody but while there’s enough suspense and humour to pass the time, this isn’t as clever as previous Pegg/Frost/Wright classics such as Shaun Of The Dead.”

Wendy Idle of Screen International was less impressed.

Idle wrote: “For all the gung-ho fx and severed limbs, this sloppy horror comedy under delivers on both shocks and laughs.”

Likewise, Hannah Woodhead of Little White Lies wrote: “Boorish, schlocky teenage locker room humour.”

Of Little White Lies triad marking system, Woodhead gave the movie three for anticipation, two for enjoyment, and two in retrospect, out of five.

A more positive take on Slaughterhouse Rulez came from Andrew Pulver.

Writing for the Guardian, Pulver said: “Slaughterhouse Rulez, for a horror-comedy, is neither particularly scary or especially funny.

“But it does have an amiable sort of charm.”

Richard Trenholm wrote for CNet: “In summation, Slaughterhouse Rulez is a horror comedy B-movie that earns an A grade.”

Time Out’s Mark Salisbury, on the other hand, wrote: “Loud, brash, and almost entirely laugh-free.”

Despite the mixed-negative reviews, audiences (at least according to Rotten Tomatoes) thoroughly enjoyed the film.

106 IMDb users have given Slaughterhouse Rulez a weighted average vote of six out of ten.

Slaughterhouse Rulez is now playing in cinemas.