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When Mike's not writing or watching movies, you can find him reading to his little girl, or doing science experiments with her, or trying to convince her that the term "chicken butt" comes from people putting chicken nuggets down their underwear. Film Thrills marks his attempt to take things up a notch, expand his viewing and writing horizons and to entertain and engage his audience while doing so. Since 2009 Mike has written about independent horror, science fiction, cult and thrillers through his own blog All Things Horror along with various other spots on the web. The end of the film unveils a world ripe for exploration, and I’d damn sure enjoy a weekly dose of the comic mayhem on display here than the grueling trudge that is The Walking Dead.Ĭooties is available on VOD platforms iTunes, Amazon Video, Vudu and more along with playing theatrically in select cities.
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The landscape is littered with awful horror comedy hybrids, but when one comes along that gets it right, it deserves to be seen by as many people as humanly possible. I haven’t laughed so hard, so often during a film as I did with Cooties. They bully one another without mercy (“If my butthole had a butthole it would look like you” might be my new go-to insult), flaunt their disrespect of anyone in authority and look to torment anyone and everyone within the site of their beady little eyes. Cooties brings pint sized carnage (though to be fair, most of the kids come up to Wood’s chest) to the screen, but part of the beauty of the film is the acknowledgement that these kids were little, monstrous shits long before they ate some Chicken McVirus nuggets. Before long the schoolyard has been converted to a bloodthirsty mob of flesh eating children who waste no time setting upon unsuspecting teachers and tearing them to pieces. The tainted nuggets cause a viral infection that only infects the prepubescent set. Before our pig tailed little angel even bites into the oozing pus filled nuggets, my stomach began to roil. If they are old enough, they understand that there is no such thing as the cooties, and that this is more an excuse for exploring that exciting tension that arises when boys meet girls (in a Calvin meets Susie Derkins kind of way).
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By the way, kudos to the opening montage that pulls back the lid on exactly how those render nuggets get made in all its grisly, stomach turning fashion. I should add that not all kids take this too seriously. Before the recess bell even has a chance to ring, a tainted chicken nugget brings about the end of the world.