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Films like Cooties.

Cooties (2014) reads as Neutral, breathless, extreme comedy / horror, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold. Every film below is ranked by distance across the same twelve hand-scored axes — with what it keeps, and where it walks away. Not a genre dump.

Bloodsucking Bastards (2015) poster
1. Bloodsucking Bastards2015

Keeps the chilly detachment and the airy, open telling — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Office Uprising (2018) poster
2. Office Uprising2018

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the chilly detachment — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Undead or Alive: A Zombedy (2007) poster
3. Undead or Alive: A Zombedy2007

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the chilly detachment — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Stitches (2012) poster
4. Stitches2012

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the chilly detachment — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Mad (2007) poster
5. The Mad2007

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the chilly detachment — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

ZMD: Zombies of Mass Destruction (2010) poster
6. ZMD: Zombies of Mass Destruction2010

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the chilly detachment — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Detention of the Dead (2012) poster
7. Detention of the Dead2012

Keeps the chilly detachment and the airy, open telling — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Black Friday (2021) poster
8. Black Friday2021

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the chilly detachment — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Dead Snow (2009) poster
9. Dead Snow2009

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the chilly detachment — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Boy Eats Girl (2005) poster
10. Boy Eats Girl2005

Keeps the airy, open telling; trades toward a chilly detachment.

Vamp U (2013) poster
11. Vamp U2013

Keeps the chilly detachment and the airy, open telling; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Hansel and Gretel Get Baked (2013) poster
12. Hansel and Gretel Get Baked2013

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the chilly detachment; trades toward a strange, dreamlike logic.

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