History Film / Cooties

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

* RefugeInAudacity: The whole movie runs on this, what with not just having violently psychotic children, but having them swear, generally act extremely inappropriately long before they turn go crazy and the teachers largely being utterly insane.

* RefugeInAudacity: The whole movie runs on this, what with not just having child zombies, but having them swear, generally act extremely inappropriately long before they turn into zombies and the teachers largely being utterly insane.

* RefugeInAudacity: The whole movie runs on this, what with not just having child zombies, but having them swear and generally act extremely inappropriately long before they turn into zombies.

* TransparentCloset: Tracy. So transparent it's barely a closet.

Cooties is a 2015 horror comedy starring Creator/ElijahWood, [[Series/TheNewsroom Alison Pill]] 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. While waiting to be rescued, a group of teachers led by Clint Hadson (Wood) must fight for their lives.

* AirVentPassageway: At one point, Clint crawls through one. [[spoiler:The kids are waiting for him.]]

* CombatPragmatist: The teachers, who weaponize everyday elementary school objects such as jump ropes, cymbals and baseball machines. Also counts as MundaneMadeAwesome.

* CreepyChildrenSinging: The opening credits feature the journey of a tainted chicken nugget from slaughterhouse to cafeteria, with all the gory details...which would have been disturbing enough without a soundtrack consisting of children [[OminousLatinChanting chanting gibberish]], grinding synthesizers, and what can only be described as a ''sinister kazoo chorus''.

* MoodWhiplash: The trailer first plays out like a typical family film taking place in an elementary school, from teachers getting no respect from the students to bullies picking on a girl for her odd blemishes on her face...[[spoiler:until one of them accidentally yanks out a pigtail from her scalp and realizes too late that something is wrong.]]

** Also [[spoiler:The zombies are more intelligent, as seen when they turn the power off and hide in the vents; and they still exhibit a childish playfulness, although their attention has shifted from playground equipment to parts of their slaughtered victims...]]

* [[FinalGirl Final Boy]]: With a twist. Calvin is the only kid left who's not infected by the Cooties in the school. He later joins the teachers to fend off the zombies.

* InfantImmortality: Averted, they’re undead to begin with.

* OurZombiesAreDifferent: Of the not-undead, ''28DaysLater'' style virus-infected variety. It turns the brain's grey matter into a gooey, black mass and causes the infected to become vicious, biting, scratching, and tearing apart any adult they can get their hands on. While it’s stated that anyone who [[spoiler:went through puberty]] is immune to the ''zombifying'' effects of the virus, only experiencing mild flu-like symptoms, they aren't safe from being mauled to death.

* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: Wade’s reaction to immunity simply being having gone through puberty.

* GrossUpCloseUp: A rare live-action example at the end of the opening credits, where the aforementioned PatientZero eats an infected chicken nugget (the source of the virus), the image of the black-blotched morsel filling the screen and oozing grey pus when she takes a big bite.

-->'''Wade''': Naptime, motherfu- (Throws match onto gasoline.)
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: While it’s stated that anyone who went through puberty is immune to the virus, they can still be mauled to death.
** Also [[spoiler:The zombies are more intelligent, as seen when they turn the power off and hide in the vents.]]

* AdultFear: Your children turned into ravenous, bloodthirsty savages from a virus incubated at school. One mother was seen picking up her child and was then eaten by him shortly after he got in the car.

* ActorAllusion: Wade's reaction to Clint's plan to sneak around the infected.
-->'''Wade''': You sneak around, huh? Sneak around like a little [[Film/TheLordOfTheRings hobbit]].
* AdultFear: Your children turned into ravenous, bloodthirsty savages from a virus extracted at school. Heck, one mother was seen picking up her child from school and then was eaten by him shortly after he got in the car.

* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: Wade’s reaction to immunity simply being having gone through puberty.

* MoodWhiplash: The trailer first plays out like a typical family film taking place in an elementary school, from teachers having no respect from the students to bullies picking on a girl for her odd blemishes on her face...[[spoiler:until one of them accidentally yanks out a pigtail from her scalp and realizes too late that something is wrong.]]

Cooties is a 2014 horror comedy starring Creator/ElijahWood, [[Series/TheNewsroom Alison Pill]] 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. While waiting to be rescued, a group of teachers led by Clint Hadson (Wood) must fight for their lives.

* BadassTeacher: All the teachers manage to hold their own.