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.
Main character hasnât talked to romantic interest in 15 years, moved back home and got a job at the school she works at just to see her again. Implied stalking.
A character named Rick, the crossing guard, is seen eating shrooms in his van. He also supplies the main characters with adderall and ritalin to knock out some of the zombie children.
In the opening scene, a chicken's neck is snapped (on screen). In addition, it doesn't show them dying, but it also displays many other dead chickens. It also shows feathers being plucked, maggots on the dead chickens, some graphic gore/blood, and them being ground into nuggets.
Watched only a bit once I think with my brother and we had to stop, very realistic from what i remember (this was a couple years ago so please correct me if I'm wrong)
Near the end, Wade Johnson sprays gasoline all over a playplace filled with the zombie kids and he and Clint Hadson trap them in, Wade lights a match, and drops it in the gasoline, starting a fire and burning down the playplace and all the zombie kids inside.
Wade Johnson has to bash in a zombie kid's head with a fire extinguisher because it's attacking Doug - the kid is off-screen, but you see the blood and hear it.
When the policeman comes after Rebekkah Halverson sets off her alarm, he's talking to the zombie children and puts his hand on the fence, resulting in two of his fingers being bitten off by one of the kids.
There's a couple, but it's mostly just sudden noises rather than full-on jumpscares (this movie is much more of a sick you out kind of movie, rather than a scare you one). The most major one off the top of my head (I'll edit this when I watch again), is when Clint Hadson and Lucy McCormick are crawling through a vent, and a zombie kid jumps onto the vent suddenly.
Minor spoilers !! 1 itâs a zombie movie 2 one of the characters do shrooms and have hallucinations although most of what is shown what he sees is real besides a talking giraffe
some parts of one characterâs portrayal (canât remember his name) are fairly over the top, such as his introduction scene being him reading a book explaining how to have a very basic conversation and then doing so very awkwardly. i am autistic and struggle with social stuff sometimes, and iâm more than well aware that many people struggle much more than me in those areas, but the way it was done felt quite stereotypical. itâs later explained that this character got into an accident that caused brain trauma when he was little, and thatâs why he struggles with social interactions, but even that conversationâs scene was very overdone: > ââŠand thatâs why sometimes i use the wrong rowboat.â >> âword?â > âyes, word.â i donât think this character ever did that before that interaction, which made it feel even more like the writers trying to make someone âweirdâ or âquirky,â especially considering the other characters are shown not to really like him and even call him a creep. sorry for the long comment. iâm aware thereâs nuance with this but i wanted to share my thoughts as an autistic person, something i believe they *meant* to try and capture in this character.
This movie is basically almost all gore and blood, it's very heavy throughout the movie. Though the gore is mostly related to adults dying via the zombie kids, there are a couple scenes where the gore is related to the children (the truck scene/auditorium scene mostly, otherwise it is off-screen).