Cooties (film)
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| Music by | Kreng |
| Cinematography | Lyle Vincent |
| Edited by | Brett W. Bachman |
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| Distributed by | Lionsgate Premiere |
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88 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $348,091 |
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| Soundtrack album by Kreng | |
| Released | September 18, 2015 |
| Genre | Film soundtrack |
| Label | Milan Records |
Cooties is a 2014 American independent horror comedy film directed by Cary Murnion and Jonathan Milott, written by Ian Brennan and Leigh Whannell. The film stars Elijah Wood, Alison Pill, Rainn Wilson, Jack McBrayer and Jorge Garcia.
The film had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 18, 2014 before being released on September 18, 2015 in a limited release and through video on demand by Lionsgate Premiere.
In the township of Ft. Chicken, Illinois, a fourth grade student at Ft. Chicken Elementary, Shelley Linker (Sunny May Allison), consumes a tainted chicken nugget with black splotches. Elsewhere, wannabe horror writer Clint Hadson (Elijah Wood) substitutes at Ft. Chicken Elementary, where he reunites with his former high school crush, Lucy McCormick, (Alison Pill), but discovers she is dating Wade Johnson (Rainn Wilson), the PE teacher.
During class, Shelley, who had been experiencing numerous symptoms, brutally attacks her classmate, Patriot (Cooper Roth) after he tugs on one of her pigtails only to have it torn out of her scalp. She bites his cheek, infecting him with the virus; she also claws Clint, but he appears to show no symptoms. Though she tries to escape the school ground before she fully turns, Shelly turns feral and passes the virus to Dink (Miles Elliot), another bully, who spreads the virus throughout the playground by scratching the rest of the children, resulting in the other children becoming infected and attacking the school staff; Mr. Pederson, Miss Nash, Mrs. Gordon, Nurse Rhonda, Vice Principal Simms and Mr. Henderson are all killed by the children. The few surviving staff members, consisting of Clint, Lucy, Wade, Tracy Lacey (Jack McBrayer), Rebbekah Halverson (Nasim Pedrad), Doug (Leigh Whannell), and Mrs. Birk (Tammie Baird), hide in the faculty lounge but are attacked by Patriot who tackles Mrs. Birk into a cupboard and mauls her to death (Tracy, apparently unaware of her real name, screams "Who is that lady?!" when this happens).
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