The next time your state senator thinks about voting to cut funding for school lunches, kindly show him or her the first five minutes of Cooties. The gross-out horror-comedy takes place at an elementary school where a virus has turned the kids into killer zombies. How did it all start? Why, in the cafeteria in the kids' chicken nuggets. Eat up!
Leigh Whannell (Saw, Insidious Chapter 3) co-wrote and stars alongside Elijah Wood, Rainn Wilson, Alison Pill, Jack McBrayer, Nasim Pedrad, Ian Brennan and Jorgé Garcia, playing a band of rather incompetent teachers who must stick together in order to survive. It's all played up for laughs rather than scares, but it's still a pretty disgusting flick. I saw it at Sundance last year and felt it probably would have worked better as a short film rather than a feature. There just weren't enough laughs to sustain it for long.
Directed by Jonathan Milott and Cary Murnion, Cooties hits theaters and VOD on September 18th.
