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Slaughterhouse Rulez (2018)
★ 5.6 · 496 ratings on TMDB
Bloodius. Hellius. Maximus.
An illustrious British boarding school becomes a bloody battleground when a mysterious sinkhole appears at a nearby fracking site unleashing unspeakable horror.
DirectorCrispian Mills
The emergence reading
Slaughterhouse Rulez keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing class, exploitation, fear, authority, violence.
zero-distanceUSclassexploitationfearauthorityviolence
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