Zombies (2018)
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Zombies is an American musical that premiered on Disney Channel on February 16, 2018 as a Disney Channel Original Movie. The film is based on the unaired pilot Zombies & Cheerleaders by David Light and Joseph Raso, and stars Milo Manheim and Meg Donnelly, playing zombie football player Zed and human cheerleader Addison who meet and fall in love, and who must lead their respective groups to coexist with each other.
Zombies was successful for Disney Channel upon its premiere; the movie received just over two and a half million views during its initial February 2018 premiere. Critically, Zombies received mixed reviews with praise directed towards the positive messages and songs but criticism towards the plot's predictability. The franchise that has spawned from the film resulted in the release of a sequel, Zombies 2, which premiered on Disney Channel on February 14, 2020. A third movie, Zombies 3, premiered on Disney+ on July 15, 2022, before airing on Disney Channel on August 12, 2022. A fourth film, Zombies 4: Dawn of the Vampires, premiered on Disney Channel on July 10, 2025 and July 11, 2025 on Disney+
Plot
[edit | edit source]Fifty years ago in the conformist planned community of Seabrook, an accident at the Seabrook Power Plant resulted in an explosion that caused half the population of Seabrook to turn into brain-eating zombies. Those that weren't affected constructed a wall to quarantine the zombies from the rest of Seabrook in a territory called Zombietown. The government later created bracelets for zombies, called Z-Bands, that deliver electromagnetic pulses to keep zombies from craving brains. In the present day, zombie students from Zombietown transfer to the human high school, Seabrook High, where suburban life is filled with uniformity, traditions, and pep rallies. The zombies in the school are patrolled by Dale, whose daughter Addison and nephew Bucky are on the school's cheerleading team.
Cast
[edit | edit source]- Milo Manheim as Zed
- Meg Donnelly as Addison
- Trevor Tordjman as Bucky,
- Kylee Russell as Eliza
- Carla Jeffery as Bree
- Kingston Foster as Zoey
- James Godfrey as Bonzo
- Naomi Snieckus as Ms. Lee
- Jonathan Langdon as Coach
- Paul Hopkins as Dale
- Marie Ward as Missy
- Tony Nappo as Zevon
- Emilia McCarthy as Lacey,
- Mickeey Nguyen as Tracey
- Jasmine Renee Thomas as Stacey