It will be an amazing feat to navigate through this movie with the appropriate tone. To keep such horrific acts funny, this movie will have to walk on a knife’s edge, and it is worth noting that the film received a new ending when it was purchased by Lionsgate last fall. This type of conflict is entirely foreign for us, as it is generally very difficult to craft a narrative where explicit violence against swathes of children is not only acceptable, but encouraged. But, let’s be serious (an odd word choice): if we watch this movie, it will be for the scenes of adults fighting for their lives against infected grade school children. The montage self-reference did work really well for me, inspiring a chuckle or two. I could do without the Jack McBrayer’s character is secretly gay kind of joke, which definitely inspired an eye roll on my end. In the trailer itself, some of the jokes fall a little flat. Overall, one has to feel impressed with this cast, and I would expect a good deal of laughs from this flick. The World), and Jack McBrayer( 30 Rock) are more expected in the comedy-slash-something genre. For a horror comedy of this nature, it is surprising the see the likes of Elijah Wood, but perhaps Rainn Wilson ( Super), Alison Pill( Scott Pilgrim vs. Your standard zombie movie tropes seem to apply in Cooties: the disease is mysterious at the beginning, spreads quickly, and the threat of a global pandemic is hinted at in the trailer. The children then infect each other, attack their teachers and parents, and generally create a terrifying and awkward situation for all those involved. I had heard absolutely zero about this movie before the trailer dropped online, so I was intrigued by the idea of small children contracting a zombie disease from questionable school cafeteria chicken nuggets. For those times, there is the Cooties Trailer, released yesterday. 18.Sometimes you just want to watch disease-ridden schoolchildren getting murdered by adults. Whannell, an established horror screenwriter (“Saw,” “Insidious”) wrote the script with Ian Brennan (“Glee”). Since its Sundance premiere in 2014, Lionsgate purchased the film and directors Jonathan Milott and Cary Murnion re-edited some of the plot.Īlso Read: Sundance Video: Elijah Wood and 'Cooties' Cast on Crowdfunding and the New Horror Genre The movie trailer suggests fans of “Shaun of the Dead” will be amused: It’s gory, it’s funny and full of action. parents - arrive to pick up their dead kids at the end of the school day.Īlso Read: Hollywood's Zombie Overload: Why Flesh-Eater Pitches Are a Tough Sell The catch? The virus only affects those who haven’t undergone puberty yet.Įlijah Wood, Rainn Wilson and Leigh Whannell are teachers who get trapped inside their school when the virus spreads, and team up with more faculty to battle the young undead until reinforcements - a.k.a. In a new trailer for zombie comedy “Cooties,” kids at an elementary school are turning into flesh eaters after one contracts a deadly virus from tainted chicken nuggets in the school cafeteria. Watch what you eat, kids (and teachers stuck being around them all day).
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