A band of teachers try to survive the day when infected chicken nuggets turn schoolchildren into killing machines.

In “Cooties,” horror and comedy mix with reading, writing, and ’rithmetic with Elijah Wood and Rainn Wilson.

'Cooties': EW review

Elijah Wood, Rainn Wilson, and Alison Pill play teachers helping their colleagues survive an attack of elementary-school zombies.

Sundance Review: Elijah Wood Vehicle 'Cooties' Is Gross Genre Fun

Horror-comedy Cooties is one of those ideas that works better in theory than it does as a full feature-length film.

What grade-school teachers know, but may not want to express, is that as noble as the profession is, it sometimes requires squelching the desire to pop certa...

AS A parent of toddlers, I am well aware of the horrors of chicken nuggets. “Cooties” adds one more: zombies. The schoolhouse horror-comedy stars Elijah ...

Tainted chicken nuggets in the cafeteria lead to a blood bath as teachers battle an undead uprising.

Tainted chicken nuggets in the cafeteria lead to a blood bath as teachers battle an undead uprising.

Cooties is appropriately silly, but it isn't sharper than an elementary sense of humor or horror. 

Starring Elijah Wood, Rainn Wilson and Alison Pill, Cooties is a hybrid horror-comedy featuring a sad-sack substitute teacher who must defend his school from...

A schoolyard full of anklebiters develops a genuine taste for flesh in “Cooties,” an irreverent, off-color zom-com that seizes on the scourge of playgrou...