Her disease spreads quickly among classmates, setting a familiar chain of events in motion once the playground has become a giddy George Romero nightmare: Those adults who survive the initial carnage barricade themselves in the teachers’ lounge, are forced to flee to a safer room, develop some theories about what’s happening around them, and so on.
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Star-stuffed, well paced and very funny, Jonathan Milott and Cary Murnion‘s debut is closest in commercial terms to 2009’s Zombieland, and should easily connect with auds beyond the genre-buff faithful.Įlijah Wood leads a well balanced ensemble as Clint, a would-be novelist who recently moved back to his hometown after failing to make it in New York. It’s been a while since the zom-com genre saw an entry as strong as Cooties, which sets its flesh-eater outbreak at a white-bread elementary school and forces faculty to stay a step ahead of the now-zombified kids they once tried to teach.
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