Cooties is a 2014 American zombie comedy film directed by Jonathan Milott and Cary Murnion from a screenplay that was written by Ian Brennan and Leigh Whannell. It stars Elijah Wood, Alison Pill, Rainn Wilson, Jack McBrayer, Whannell, Nasim Pedrad, Brennan, and Jorge Garcia as a group of elementary school employees who fight to survive an outbreak among students that turns them into aggressive zombie-like savages when someone eats chicken nuggets that contain a virus.
Cooties premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on January 18, 2014, before it was released on September 18, 2015, in a limited release and through video on demand by Lionsgate Premiere. The film received mixed or average reviews from critics.
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In Fort Chicken, Illinois, a chicken infected with a mutant virus is killed and turned into a batch of badly made chicken nuggets containing the virus, which is then taken to Fort Chicken Elementary. A student, fourth-grader Shelly Linker, consumes one of the tainted black-dotted chicken nuggets and contracts the virus. Meanwhile, an aspiring horror writer named Clint Hadson substitutes at Fort Chicken Elementary, where he is reunited with his former high school crush Lucy McCormick, whom he learned is dating the physical education teacher Wade Johnson.