William Earl For a film ostensibly built around a pun, “Slotherhouse” is constructed many steps above the Syfy-level fare that brought 2013’s “Sharknado” to the mainstream.
The budget looks higher, the camerawork slicker and there is more overall craft taken into consideration than your average low-budget exploitation premise.
Yet even with a prettier package presentation, the sloth slasher is not as funny or scary as it wants to be, proving that some ideas are better in trailer-length form.
The tale begins in Panama, where a sloth massacres a crocodile before being bagged by poachers. Cut to rising college seniors in the States, chattering about Greek life and social media.
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