Simon Pegg and Nick Frost have teamed up to launch a new film and TV production company, Stolen Banner, and are kicking things off with their first project, the comedy horror Slaughterhouse Rulez.
Deadline reports that the film “is set in an elite boarding school – Welcome to Slaughterhouse – where boys and girls are groomed for power and greatness and they’re about to meet their match. The story’s hero, Don Wallace, is a wide-eyed new boy from a modest background forced to navigate a baffling new world of arcane rules and rituals, presided by sadistic sixth formers. Matters of status are aggressively enforced and conversation with school goddess Clemsie, are strictly forbidden. But this ancient and ordered world is about to be shaken to its foundations – literally – when a controversial frack site on prize school woodland causes seismic tremors, a mysterious sinkhole and an unspeakable horror is unleashed. Soon a new pecking order will be established as pupils, teachers and the school matron become locked in a bloody battle for survival.”
Slaughterhouse Rulez is being executive produced by Pegg and Frost, whose previous collaborations include Spaced, Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, The World’s End and Paul. It will be helmed by former Kula Shaker frontman Crispian Mills, who directed Pegg in 2012’s A Fantastic Fear of Everything.
Originally published May 17, 2017. Updated April 16, 2018.
