History Film / Cooties

* ZombieApocalypse: Several radio broadcasts reveal that the plague has spread citywide, [[spoiler:and by the end, it's spread across America, or at least the midwest.]]

The film premiered in 2014 at Platform/Sundance before being released on digital/VOD formats on September 18, 2015. The trailer can be seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlClLDC6uuw here]]

The film premiered in 2014 before being released on digital/VOD formats on September 18, 2015. The trailer can be seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlClLDC6uuw here]]

''Cooties'' is a 2015 horror comedy starring Creator/ElijahWood, Creator/AlisonPill, and Creator/RainnWilson. The film centers around an ordinary elementary school that soon changes when a batch of contaminated chicken nuggets transform children both in the school and around the country into ravenous, bloodthirsty savages, and the teachers must fight for their lives.

The film was released on digital/VOD formats on September 18. The trailer can be seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlClLDC6uuw here]]

** Mr. Pederson is played by Creator/MarkChristopherLawrence, who played a police officer in ''Film/ChildsPlay3'', which is weird considering that Clint's Chucky action figure in his bedroom indicates that the ''Chucky'' series exists.

* DeathOfAChild: Taken to the ''extreme.'' Along with all of the zombies being children, a baby is shown being bitten and transformed fairly early into the movie.

** Shelly really didn't see anything wrong with the infected chicken nugget that had strange black-ish lines and dark spots all over it unlike the others, and proceeds to eat it.

-->'''Calvin''': That girl Shelly has cooties.

* WhatEverHappenedToTheMouse: The Helmet Kid's fate is never revealed.

** Clint realizes that the premise of his horror book is too similar to ''Literature/{{Christine}}''.
** Wade references other films like ''Film/ShaunOfTheDead'', ''Film/TwentyEightDaysLater'', ''Film/{{Commando}}'' and brings up ''Rush'', ''Film/TheLostBoys'' and ''Film/Speed2CruiseControl'' when proclaiming that he's a huge fan of Creator/JasonPatric.

** Wade is very prone at giving shout-outs to other films like ''Film/ShaunOfTheDead'', ''Film/TwentyEightDaysLater'', ''Film/{{Commando}}'' and bringing up ''Rush'', ''Film/TheLostBoys'' and ''Film/Speed2CruiseControl'' when proclaiming that he's a huge fan of Creator/JasonPatric.

** Shelly really didn't see anything wrong with the infected chicken nugget that had strange black-ish lines and dark spots all over it unlike the others.

** The movie theater in Danville has a poster advertising ''Film/AGirlWalksHomeAloneAtNight'', which was produced by [=SpectreVision=], Elijah Wood's production company (which also produced ''Cooties'', making it a [[CompanyCrossReferences Company Cross Reference]] to boot).

* ShoutOut: The movie theater in Danville has a poster advertising ''Film/AGirlWalksHomeAloneAtNight'', which was produced by SpectreVision, Elijah Wood's production company (which also produced Cooties).

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: While they have numbers on their side and they're zombie children, the keyword in that case is ''children'', they are only dangerous when either being ambush predators or in a ZergRush, as shown by Wade being able to rush through them with little difficulty in the initial infection scene, and near the end when the adults have some weapons, they are shown to have little trouble taking them down in any mano a mano situation.

->''Oh look, carnage!''

** Especially Patriot, the kid who calls Arabs, "towelheads," threatens to falsely claim Clint abused him, and bullies Shelley. When he gets his face impaled at the end, you cheer, especially since he's a little shit as a zombie, too.

* BlackDudeDiesFirst: Played straight with a black male teacher, Averted with the black male student Calvin.

* PatientZero: The little girl who eats the infected chicken nugget.

* BastardBoyfriend: Wade has shades of this at first in regards to Lucy.

* BunnyEarsLawyer: Doug is a lunatic, but he's also a bonafide genius who is able to singlehandidly decipher everything relating to the virus over the course of the film.

* JadedWashout: Wade, an all-star high school athlete who’s now the gym teacher, is heavily implied to be one.

* AdultFear: The idea of children killing (let alone eating) innocent people. That would be any parent's worst nightmare.

* {{Jawbreaker}}: [[spoiler The infected Patriot has his jaw severely mangled after being thrown from the SUV and hitting the road face-first. He doesn’t seem to care that much about it.]]

** A lot of the kids who eventually turn into zombies in this movie are dicks, so you're not feeling sorry for them.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: While they have numbers on their side and they're zombie children, the keyword in that case is''children'', they are only dangerous when either being ambush predators or in a ZergRush, as shown by Wade being able to rush through them with little difficulty in the initial infection scene, and near the end when the adults have some weapons, they are shown to have little trouble taking them down in any mano a mano situation.

* BodyHorror: Tugging at a pigtail doesn't usually cause it to come off, taking a whole chunk of scalp out with it.

* TheVirus

* BodyHorror: Tugging at a pigtail doesn't usually cause it to come off.

* ConservationOfNinjutsu: While they have numbers on their side, the antagonists are still ''children'', they are only dangerous when either being ambush predators or in a ZergRush, as shown by Wade being able to rush through them with little difficulty in the initial infection scene, and near the end when the adults have some weapons, they are shown to have little trouble taking them down in any mano a mano situation.

* RealityEnsues: While they have numbers on their side, the antagonists are still ''children'', they are only dangerous when either being ambush predators or in a ZergRush, as shown by Wade being able to rush through them with little difficulty in the initial infection scene, and near the end when the adults have some weapons, they are shown to have little trouble taking them down in any mano a mano situation.

* AllAsiansKnowKungFu: The janitor. Played with, in the sense that he only seems to know weapon-based Martial Arts.

* PatientZero: The little girl who eats the infected chicken nugget.
* [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain Politically Incorrect Jerkass]]: Patriot before zombification, as shown by the way he describes Arabic people.
* PreAssKickingOneLiner:
-->'''Wade''': Naptime, motherfuckers! (Throws match onto gasoline.)