Metacritic reviews

Both effectively terrifying and hilarious.

Star-stuffed, well paced and very funny.

Before Cooties is a zombie movie, it is an earnest-young-teacher movie that diligently subscribes to every cliché of the form.

Amusing as the Cooties script manages to be, one gets the distinct impression that its authors didn’t bother to visit a school at any point in the research or writing process, missing out on any number of jokes they could have made at public education’s expense.

Cooties, while suitably gross and buoyed by game performances, doesn’t exploit its concept nearly as well as it should.

The engaging opening third of Cooties is enough to make the rest of the 96-minute film a mildly amusing diversion, but as the minutes roll by, you'll wish the brains of the film had remained intact.

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

Infectious horror-comedy Cooties is an energizing juggernaut until its seemingly inexhaustible ensemble cast members are outpaced by their respective characters' quirks.

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

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