Elijah Wood does well as the average dweeb with pretensions of being a writer, although much of the show is stolen by Raiin Wilson who has a fantastic line in tough guy bravado. The greater triumph of the film is also its casting. Mostly it is a film that seems to be having the time of its life deflating zombie movie cliches.
This is not a film that goes overboard on splatter and gore, although they don’t entirely shy away from it either – there is notable macabre montage where we see the children using intestines as skipping ropes, a severed finger placed between the spokes of a bicycle wheel, removed eyeballs as marbles and so on. Milott and Murnion do well when it comes to the siege scenes. Jonathan Milott and Cary Murnion have a very snappy pace and the film hits in with a great sense of delivery and just keeps going. It is this sharp and witty humour, the wryly penetrating observation of the various characters and puncturing of their self-pretensions that make the film. I am willing to bet that one or other of the scriptwriters on the film had previously worked as a teacher – the film seems devastatingly on the ball in its wicked satire of teachers and their methods, even their peccadilloes and manner of speech. One twist we do get is that the zombies are all school-age children and the locale is an elementary school. Its treatment of zombies themes – the initial infection, the outbreak, the characters at siege inside a building – is not any different to standard.
Nevertheless, Cooties is one effort that stands up rather well. Teachers at siege – (l to r) co-writer Leigh Whannell, co-producer Elijah Wood, Alison Pill Starting out as a way to revive the zombie genre, the zombie parody is itself now starting to become a creatively exhausted vein.
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the Zombies (2010), Bong of the Dead (2011), Cockneys vs Zombies (2012), Pro Wrestlers vs Zombies (2014), Zombeavers (2014), MILFs vs Zombies (2015), Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse (2015), Attack of the Lederhosen Zombies (2016), Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2016) and Fat Ass Zombies (2020). Since the late 2000s, filmmakers have been turning to zombie parodies and throwing zombies in with absurdly incongruous things as in the likes of Zombie Beach Party (2003), Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead (2006), Zombie Cheerleader Camp (2007), Zombie Strippers! (2008), Attack of the Vegan Zombies! (2009), Stag Night of the Dead (2009), Big Tits Zombie (2010), Santa Claus vs. The zombie film has become a massively creatively exhausted genre in the last few years. Waller, a Spectrevision producer and director of Raze (2013) and Camino (2015), and Ian Brennan who co-created tv’s Glee (2009-15) and Scream Queens (2015-7).
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film Upgrade (2018) and The Invisible Man (2020) Josh C. While co-directors Jonathan Milott and Cary Murnion are making their debut, there is an interesting cluster of names on the script, including Leigh Whannell, a collaborator with James Wan on the scripts for Saw (2004), Dead Silence (2007), and Insidious (2010) and sequels who subsequently made his debut as director with Insidious Chapter 3 (2015), followed by the A.I. (See below for the other Spectrevision films). Cooties was the second film for Elijah Wood’s Spectrevision production company and the first in which Wood had a starring role.
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