AVClub: Particularly for childless adults, children can seem like monsters, depraved little creatures of bottomless need and want unregulated by civility and concern for social niceties. The glib new horror comedy Cooties cleverly transforms kids from symbolic monsters into literal ones after a weird poultry-derived malady causes innocent school children to devolve into mindless zombies desperate to consume human flesh. It might seem like every possible permutation of zombie movie has been made already (as if to underline just how zombie-crazed pop-culture has become, there was recently a film called Zombeavers), but Cooties adds a new element of inter-generational combat to this appropriately deathless and increasingly massive subsection of the horror-movie world.
Sam Love writes- When it comes to hybridising genres, horror and comedy go together like a fish and chips. But for every success, like Evil Dead II or modern cult classic Shaun of the Dead, there are countless disasters like the seemingly endless Scary Movie franchise. But sometimes, and this applies to all genres, a modern classic appears seemingly out of nowhere. With that in mind, where does this film stand?
Clint (Elijah Wood) is about to begin his job as a substitute teacher for an elementary school - only the kids have been infected by a tainted chicken nugget, turning into little cannibals.
Crash Landed delves into the Blu-ray release of the horror-comedy Cooties.
Film Class Junkies' Cooties Review, a unique spin on the festering corpse known as the zombie genre.
