Nor did they worry much about traditional zombie lore, bending the rules to suit the comedy (anyone past puberty can’t catch “cooties”).
coach when it comes to landing the laughs.Īmusing 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. The result is a not-very-scary chiller laced with profanity, pot jokes and other wildly inappropriate gags, only a few of which seem to have anything to do with the elementary school setting (like the throwaway shot of kids playing tetherball with a dead teacher’s head).īoth Brennan and Whannell also appear in the film, turning in memorable performances as the school vice principal and the world’s creepiest sex-ed teacher, respectively, though it’s hard for anyone to compete with attention hog Rainn Wilson’s overzealous P.E. Such a twisted genre hybrid could only hail from two writers as weirdly paired as Ian Brennan (“Glee”) and Leigh Whannell (“Saw”), whose disparate sensibilities actually prove remarkably compatible when it comes to cross-breeding teeny-bopper comedy with hard-R horror. In that respect, he’s no different from the other teachers, none of whom seems to care about inspiring young minds - which probably explains why they aren’t all that bothered when the kids start to eat one another’s brains. Clint is determined to be the cool guy to these ungrateful kids, but there’s only so much you can do for hell-raisers like Patriot (Cooper Roth), born on 9/11 and counting down to his 18th birthday, when he can finally go kick some terrorist butt.Ĭlint would much rather be working on what sounds like the worst horror novel ever, or flirting with his old flame Lucy McCormick (Alison Pill, all smiles). Chicken Elementary unprepared for the unruly bunch of prepubescent monsters that await him in class - and this is before an infected chicken nugget transforms them all into zombies. Sad-sack substitute Clint Hadson (Elijah Wood) arrives for his first day back at Ft.
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