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The lesson that I need to constantly relearn in attacking lists of movies is that when I watch something that might show up on a list, I need to review it. I’ve seen Cooties before, but never actually reviewed it, and suddenly it’s shown up on the TSZDT list of zombie films and here we are. I didn’t hate this movie the first time I watched it, but I also didn’t love it, so I figured knocking it out as soon as I could would be a good idea. I don’t like things hanging over my head in the way that I’ll eventually have to rewatch We Need to Talk About Kevin currently is.
With any zombie movie, you either have to do things as perfectly as you can (see: Train to Busan) or do something really different with the subgenre. The X-factor in Cooties is that our zombie plague is only going to affect children. Anyone who has gone through puberty is going to get some flu-like symptoms, but the kids are going to go feral, infect each other, and straight up murder adults and eat them. They are zombies, after all.