Prepubescent school children get turned into blood-thirsty zombies in the horror-comedy Cooties. Clint Hadson (Elijah Wood) is an aspiring novelist, who has recently returned to his hometown of Ft. Chicken, Illinois, where is gets a job to substitute at the local elementary school. It is there he is reunited with his old crush Lucy McCormick (Alison Pill), while quickly entering into a feud with Lucy's PE teacher boyfriend Wade (Rainn Wilson). After eating contaminated chicken nuggets, the kids at the school get “cooties” and and turn into violent zombies, which results in the teachers struggling to make it out of the school alive.
Cooties is a film by first-time filmmakers Jonathan Milott and Cary Murnion, based on a screenplay by Leigh Whannell (Saw, Insidious) and Ian Brennan (Glee). The film aims to give a comedic twist to the classic zombie apocalypse premise by only having prepubescent kids become zombies. Without a doubt, this is a premise that looks good on paper, but in execution, the film doesn't quite work out.
Altogether, Cooties is a horror-comedy that sounds like it could have been a lot of fun, but it ends up being just as immature as the kids who become zombified.
★ ★ ★ | WATCHABLE
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