Are You Ready to Be Even More Horrified of Lice?
Published on June 25, 2025
Screenshot: Warner Bros.
Screenshot: Warner Bros.
You read that right. The next creature to get a terrifying horror take… will be lice. According to Variety, Lice, will be a “gruesome throwback to ‘80s high school classics.” The movie stars Emile Hirsch (Speed Racer, pictured above), Justin Long (Goosebumps), Kevin Connolly (Entourage), Emilie Bierre (Teacup), and Joelle Farrow (Under the Banner of Heaven), and is the feature film debut of director Jonathan Bensimon.
Here’s the longer synopsis Variety provided:
Lice follows a deadly outbreak of the parasite at a Long Island high school in the 1980s. When the school goes under military lockdown, the itch-crazed students turn on each other in a desperate struggle to survive. Hirsch stars as burned-out science teacher Mr. Shanker, who finds new purpose as he investigates the bloodthirsty mites, Long as Principal Van, a man who is out of his depth and soon out of his mind, and Connolly as the tenacious Detective Sikorski, the desperate cop on the outside racing against time to contain the outbreak before it consumes the entire town.
This isn’t one of those movies that gets announced and then never makes it to screens—nope, it’s done filming and everything. The screenplay is by Anthony Musella and Shaun Harris, and is based on a concept by Kevin Connolly (who also produces).
No word yet on when you can itch your way through a showing in theaters.[end-mark]
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