It doesn’t commit enough to make the premise pop and ends up reaching for jokes and sinking into bad taste.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Sep 2, 2022

Extreme gore and a silly sense of humor combine into an often funny but ultimately forgettable experience.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 27, 2022

People straight up react badly when you kill kids.

| Oct 24, 2021

Gory and hilarious and occasionally terrifying.

| Original Score: B+ | Aug 29, 2021

Cooties is fine if you want to watch a movie about elementary school kids getting bludgeoned with fire extinguishers and then set ablaze.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 17, 2019

Cooties has its problems, but for fans of the genre, it's mostly good bloody fun.

| Original Score: B | Dec 7, 2018

It's too bad-Cooties has promise as a premise but the end result is just a mess.

| Oct 18, 2017

Cooties never quite decides if it is aimed at children or adults.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 20, 2017

If you have always had the sneaky suspicion that children are little monsters, well, this movie is firmly on your side. It smartly blurs the line between pint-sized terror and flesh-eating hellion because really, who can tell sometimes?

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 25, 2016

A delicious treat for gorehounds, as well as those who survived elementary school as a child or an adult.

| Dec 3, 2015

A good movie to pass the time and that's it, in the end you feel like they could've done more with it. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 4, 2015

An entertaining film full of blood, guts, dark humor and very politically incorrect situations. [Full review in Spanish]

| Nov 4, 2015

This subversive horror-comedy puts a fresh spin on zombie clichs, and also falls just on the right side of bad taste.

| Oct 9, 2015

It's got an inspired setup, but then wastes it on a half-baked plot, a tepid sense of humor and a preoccupation with one-upping itself with its admittedly solid gore effects.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 30, 2015

Starting off promisingly with an utterly gruesome prologue (you'll never eat chicken nuggets again) and some funny, likable characters, this horror-comedy eventually becomes both bland and tasteless.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 25, 2015

Every performance seems calibrated to wacky, yet pitiful, which keeps the film entertaining even if you're not actually rooting for any of the characters.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Sep 25, 2015

Cooties had an idea that could have been fleshed out into an uproarious flesh-eating comedy... but what you get instead is a fever-pitch of tropes that are all dead on arrival.

| Original Score: 3/10 | Sep 22, 2015

Barely scary but frequently funny.

| Sep 19, 2015

A raucous and fun horror comedy that succeeds in delivering creeps and hearty laughter.

| Sep 18, 2015

Slight but it remains fun and fast, enjoying its excessive carnage and premise with a distinct smile, keeping darkness to a minimum as it figures out how to master an extraordinary tonal challenge.

| Original Score: B | Sep 18, 2015