Review: Cooties
Man, this one had potential. Elijah Wood, Rainn Wilson, Jack McBrayer. Nasim Pedrad and Alison Pill are teachers in a school where the kids are infected by a virus spread by tainted chicken nuggets and become flesh-eating zombies!
It starts out pretty strong with a fresh (to me—this movie is 9 years old) twist on the zombie trope, and there are some funny bits, and the winning cast kept me engaged, but in the second half, they kind of abandoned the idea of doing anything new and just made it a run-of-the-mill zombie movie. They even did that annoying break the fourth wall thing where they announced that they knew they were conforming to action movie tropes. Why?
Like so many horror comedies, this doesn’t really work as either horror or comedy. Still, it was entertaining enough to keep me watching. But if you’re in the mood for a horror comedy, I’d recommend Let the Wrong One In or Grabbers or One Cut of the Dead.