Cooties

Name: Cooties
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Horror, Comedy
Released: September 18, 2015
Duration: 88 min
Rating: 49

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Lionsgate | Release Date: September 18, 2015 | R

Summary: When a cafeteria food virus turns elementary school children into killer zombies, a group of misfit teachers must band together to escape the playground carnage.

Director: Cary Murnion and Jonathan Milott

Genre(s): Action, Sci-Fi, Horror, Comedy

Rating: R

Runtime: 88 min

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IndieWire Kyle Burton

May 22, 2015

Both effectively terrifying and hilarious. Read full review

Nathan Rabin

Sep 17, 2015

Before Cooties is a zombie movie, it is an earnest-young-teacher movie that diligently subscribes to every cliché of the form. Read full review

Peter Debruge

May 22, 2015

Amusing as the Cooties script manages to be, one gets the distinct impression that its authors didn’t bother to visit a school at any point in the research or writing process, missing out on any number of jokes they could have made at public education’s expense. Read full review

Film.com Eric D. Snider

May 22, 2015

Cooties, while suitably gross and buoyed by game performances, doesn’t exploit its concept nearly as well as it should. Read full review

David Lewis

Sep 17, 2015

This is a movie in search of a finale. Read full review

Chuck Bowen

Sep 15, 2015

It makes an occasionally spirited pretense of injecting the tensions of the United States's educational system into a familiar zombie-siege scenario. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Nick Allen

Sep 18, 2015

Cooties is a midnight movie for those fine with dozing off about twenty minutes in, once the charm of its single sentence log-line has worn off. Read full review

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blackmesatech

Feb 27, 2016

Terrifying and hilarious. This is what a horror comedy should have, and this has those very things. Very nice concept and is just an amazing thrill ride all the through to the end. Amazing movie.

Some of the jokes are hit or miss, but most of them are funny.

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Davrosdaleks1

Feb 18, 2017

There's been a lot of zombie comedies out recently, but this has been stronger than most. The dialogue has a little more thought put to it. Well, directed, entire cast was strong especially screenwriter as weird teacher Doug.

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alexa417

Sep 29, 2015

Barely scary but frequently funny. I find it funny. Check out yourselves and you will surely find out.

Watch it here for free http://www.watchfree.to/watch-2a3e80-Cooties-movie-online-free-putlocker.html

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Taipan_19

Jan 15, 2016

This film was funny and slick. The idea of child actors being able to take on more adult roles is appealing to me as I enjoy watching child actors really show what they are made of. The story stays on topic of what a zombie film should be but it dosen't resort to every typical zombie movieThis film was funny and slick. The idea of child actors being able to take on more adult roles is appealing to me as I enjoy watching child actors really show what they are made of. The story stays on topic of what a zombie film should be but it dosen't resort to every typical zombie movie ever made cliche and I think that's great. Some of the acting could be stronger at times and some writing felt pushed aside.… Expand

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LeZee

Apr 4, 2016

For its production standards not a bad product.

Some of the decent second tier horror and zombie movies were made in the 2015 and this is one of that. When the actors are in demand, we expect big from their movies, but this story suits for these actors. Because an average story looksFor its production standards not a bad product.

Some of the decent second tier horror and zombie movies were made in the 2015 and this is one of that. When the actors are in demand, we expect big from their movies, but this story suits for these actors. Because an average story looks better with guys are not in the watch-out list. So I was not surprised with the movie, but enjoyed the entertainment it offered.

Rainn Wilson's the man of the movie, but as for the narration Elijah Woods stands on the front. In this, the children were the antagonist, but it is an R rated movie and nothing was so serious to consider. You know bashing kids kind of stuffs were carefully crafted. Comedy means not like you're going to get the loud ones, but simply acceptable for a change in the storytelling.

If you exclude the zombie kids, the rest of the movie was nothing new. The same old adventure with the similar group of people who tries to survive the epidemic. Especially how it all begins was not logical, so you better not look for a proper explanation for those things. Even the runtime was well shorter than the 90 minutes that makes it sweet, Overall a fun movie, only if you accept what it delivers than what you want.

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davySaveme

Feb 14, 2021

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The movie is simply okay for the most part. However the ending isn’t any sort of conclusion. Since they didn’t make a part two, I guess that’s it. The movie could’ve used a little more gore and comedy. It seemed to be leaning back and forth between serious and silly. Never finding a proper balance:… Expand

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dekemoviegeek

Dec 26, 2015

Worst piece of vile entertainment to come out in 2015. Pathetically attempts to be campy, but ends up being like that decomposing dairy based dessert one left out and forgets for summer weeks on end in the darkness of pantry & ala Homer Simpson attempts to ingest only to succumb to a mixtureWorst piece of vile entertainment to come out in 2015. Pathetically attempts to be campy, but ends up being like that decomposing dairy based dessert one left out and forgets for summer weeks on end in the darkness of pantry & ala Homer Simpson attempts to ingest only to succumb to a mixture of rotten photodegradation as product is brought to the light of critical view & end result: subsequent mixture of poor filmmaking & green bile. One of those exercises where one wonders how can this much talent not know they are making such fowl stank degradation? This is visual vomit makes the standard for cinema garbage (bad Adam Sandler movies) seem like classics. Was angry enough with Redbox to try & figure out a way to get my dollar back for renting this absolute trash.… Expand

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