It’s been already a while since the tandem formed by Simon Pegg, Nick Frost and Edgar Wright shook up british cinema with the horror comedy Shaun of the Dead (2004). The actors and director were unknown names for the big public but suddently they became of popular domain. The formula worked so well that they did two other movies in what they baptized “The Cornetto Trilogy”, Hot Fuzz (2007) and The World’s End (2013). A gory zombie flick, a cops action thriller and a science fiction stravaganza, all showered with fresh sense of comedy, the personality and the characters played by Pegg and Frost, and the always effective hand of Wright to direct and edit almost perfect movies.
That’s why it is always grateful thing to have in hands a genre comedy starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, as Slaughterhouse Rulez (2018). This time the director is Crispian Mills, with whom Simon Pegg already worked starring his directorial debut A Fantastic Fear of Everything (2012). Mills is also the author of the story and the screenplay together with Henry Fitzherbert. This film is about an illustrious British boarding school that becomes a bloody battleground when a mysterious sinkhole appears at a nearby fracking site unleashing unspeakable horror.
Besides Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, Slaughterhouse Rulez (2018) is also starred by Hermione Corfield, Michael Sheen, Finn Cole, Asa Butterfield, Jamie Blackley, Jassa Ahluwalia, Tom Rhys Harries, Jo Hartley and Isabella Laughland. The movie is set to hit theaters in the UK the 31st of October, so it is to expect the rest of territories will have the film in their cinemas around the same dates. You can watch here the first trailer for Slaughterhouse Rulez (2018):
