SLAUGHTERHOUSE RULEZ (15)

WHO’S IN IT?

Asa Butterfield (Hugo), Simon Pegg (Hot Fuzz), Michael Sheen (Frost/Nixon), Nick Frost (Cuban Fury), Finn Cole (Offender), Hermione Corfield (Star Wars: The Last Jedi), Jo Hartley (Eddie the Eagle), Louis Strong (film debut), Jamie Blackley (If I Stay), Jassa Ahluwalia (My Angel), Tom Rhys-Harries (Hunky Dory), Max Raphael (Heidi: Queen of the Mountain), Kit Connor (The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society), Isabella Laughland (Now Is Good), Jane Stanness (A Fantastic Fear of Everything)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Crispian Mills (A Fantastic Fear of Everything), director, writer; Henry Fitzherbert (film debut), writer; Charlotte Walls (Finding Your Feet), producer; Jon Ekstrand (Life), composer; John de Borman (The Full Monty), cinematographer; Victoria Boydell (The Awakening), Peter Christelis (A Cock and Bull Story) and David Freeman (How to Lose Friends & Alienate People), editors

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

At the prestigious Slaughterhouse boarding school, the students and teachers are about to experience a series of mysterious events when a controversial frack site on school grounds gives way to seismic tremors, a mysterious sinkhole, and an army of unspeakable horrors…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

As it turns out, there are worse things than being trapped in school all day, as this riotous horror-comedy released in time for Halloween ultimately proves.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

WEDNESDAY 31ST OCTOBER 2018

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