Lionsgate Premiere released the first trailer for Cooties, which opened the Stanley Film Festival earlier this month.

Patrick Cooper is on hand and sent in his review in which he called the film a “relentless riot.” We also reviewed the film out of last year’s Sundance Film Festival.

From the minds of Leigh Whannell (co-creator of Saw and Insidious) and Ian Brennan (co-creator of “Glee”), Cooties is a horror comedy with unexpected laughs and unapologetic thrills. When a cafeteria food virus turns elementary school children into little killer savages, a group of misfit teachers must band together to escape the playground carnage.

The trailer is truly something special as it’s a rare horror commodity to see children turned into horrific creatures. It takes something as fun and in good-spirits as Cooties – does this not look like an instant cult classic in the making?

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The film stars Elijah Wood (The Hobbit, Lord of the Rings), Rainn Wilson (The Office), and Alison Pill (The Newsroom) as teachers who fight to survive the mayhem while hilariously bickering in an uncomfortable love triangle on the worst Monday of their lives.

The Sundance hit Cooties will be one of the debut releases of the newly-launched Lionsgate Premiere label, which will release the film on September 18th in select theaters and on demand.

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