I honestly have no clue who this film is for. Whoever they are, they're likely to walk out of the theater wanting a refund.

| Original Score: C- | Sep 18, 2015

A midnight movie for those fine with dozing off about twenty minutes in, once the charm of its single sentence log-line has worn off.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Sep 18, 2015

While directors Jonathan Milott and Cary Murnion want to have their laughs and horror, too, the film is something of a zombie itself: half-alive and bloody, but lacking any heart.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 18, 2015

With "Cooties," what starts as recess fades all too rapidly into movie detention.

| Sep 17, 2015

It's not really funny enough to achieve grown-up cachet, and it's too ugly and violent for younger viewers.

| Sep 17, 2015

What could have been an amusing and entertaining zombie flick is, instead, a slog.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 17, 2015

The filmmakers strive to deliver on their nutty, splattery premise. But they could give us more, and not necessarily of the over-the-top stuff.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 17, 2015

Without a buttress of cleverness, "Cooties" is mere freewheeling idiocy.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 17, 2015

It's fun, but it's no Class of Nuke 'Em High.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 17, 2015

Milks its midnight-movie aesthetic for all it is worth, mixing obviously fake gore and over-the-top violence with macabre, pop-culture humor.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 17, 2015

Zombie film tropes start to dominate, and the story logic falters as the action leaves the school grounds.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 17, 2015

If Cooties subscribes slavishly to the conventions of teacher movies, it at least has fun with them.

| Original Score: B- | Sep 17, 2015

Despite the funny premise, "Cooties" doesn't live up to its potential.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 16, 2015

An energizing juggernaut until its seemingly inexhaustible ensemble cast members are outpaced by their respective characters' quirks.

| Sep 15, 2015

It makes an occasionally spirited pretense of injecting the tensions of the United States's educational system into a familiar zombie-siege scenario.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 15, 2015