Movie #11 of 2019:
Cooties (2014)
Even by the standards of low-budget horror schlock, this zom-com is pretty bad. There’s potential in the premise of elementary teachers fending off their infected pupils, but too much of the intended humor relies on nothing but gross-out gore effects and the inherent transgressiveness of violence to and by child bodies. The tone is all over the place too, and the parameters of the fictional setting don’t feel coherent even before the outbreak hits. The big-name cast members are mostly game, but they’re wasted on this material.
[Content warning for repeated misgendering, along with all of the above.]
★☆☆☆☆
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