Cooties
- kinetic
- intense
- cold
Neutral, breathless, extreme comedy / horror, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →A mysterious virus hits an isolated elementary school, transforming the kids into a feral swarm of mass savages. An unlikely hero must lead a motley band of teachers in the fight of their lives.
Our read · Cooties (2014) reads as a neutral, breathless, inventive comedy · horror · action entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.
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The shape of Cooties
What watching it is actually like.
“You want raucous schoolyard zombie comedy where teachers finally fight back hard.”
Skip it tonight — Skip if feral kids, splattery kills, or gross-out cafeteria horror will ruin appetites.
The reading.
Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.
Eight films that read most like this one.
Closeness in the twelve-axis space — how the film actually reads, not “people also liked.”
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