2014 · comedy · horror · action
Cooties
Directed by Cary Murnion, Jonathan Milott1h 28m2014
A mysterious virus hits an isolated elementary school, transforming the kids into a feral swarm of mass savages. An unlikely hero must lead a motley band of teachers in the fight of their lives.
Our read: Cooties (2014) reads as a neutral, breathless, inventive comedy · horror · action entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, breathless, extreme comedy / horror, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
- kinetic
- intense
- cold
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