Z-O-M-B-I-E-S

***Zombies*** (stylized as **Z-O-M-B-I-E-S**) is a 2018 American musical fantasy film and premiered on Disney Channel on February 16, 2018 and was released on DVD April 24, 2018.

## Synopsis

A semester at Seabrook High School in a suburban town preoccupied with uniformity, traditions and pep rallies moves along as normal. That is, until transfer students from Zombietown are integrated and main protagonists Zed and Addison (Milo Manheim and Meg Donnelly, respectively) fall in love.

## Plot

Fifty years ago in the planned community of Seabrook, an accident at the Seabrook Power Plant resulted in an explosion which 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 soothing 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.

Zed introduces himself to the viewers as he walks them through life in Zombietown, his sister Zoey who can't have a dog, and his father Zevon while making plans to join the football team.

On the other side of the fence, Addison introduces herself to the viewers as she tells them of her cheer camp experience and reveals that she wears a wig to hide her naturally white hair, since nothing will stick to it and the residents of Seabrook are against anything different. Her parents are Missy, who is the mayor of Seabrook, and her father is Dale, who is the Chief of the Zombie Patrol which keeps the zombies in line. She also has a cousin named Bucky who leads her school's cheerleading team. The two respective sides of town both dance in excitement for the first day, with Addison and Zed leading the groups (My Year).

Addison soon runs into another aspiring cheerleader named Bree, and they head to cheer tryouts. Tryouts are led by Bucky and his crew, where they dismiss and humiliate other prospective cheerleaders (Fired Up). Addison and Zed meet in a Zombie Safe Room and they start talking. When Addison realizes that Zed is a zombie, she punches him in the face but immediately regrets it, and the two become friends and soon fall in love. The star-crossed lovers, who are not supposed to be together, keep their love a secret, but Zed's friends, Eliza and Bonzo, come to know of it soon. To win football games, Zed makes Eliza hack into his Z-Band to make him 'a little more zombie'. This leads to severe pain on his wrist and rashes on that area. Bucky becomes jealous that Zed is getting more attention than him, and makes sure Addison and Zed can't talk. The pair find some time together, and wonder about the future when their blooming relationship could be normal (Someday).

Addison is invited by Zed to attend the zombie party in Zombietown with Eliza and Bonzo (BAMM). During the trip there, Addison meets Zoey who mentions that the zombies can't have pets. Eliza takes Zoey home while Addison and Zed share a moment in the "zombie park", which is just a garden of lights (Someday- Ballad). Before the pair can kiss, the party is crashed by the Zombie Patrol, and Addison is taken home by Zombie Patrol member Gus. At home, Missy and Dale find out that she has a new crush and advise her not to do any cheering until they know who it is, not knowing that the crush is on a zombie.

On the big football match day, Addison tells Zed about her parents wanting to meet him, but insists that they would never accept Zed. Bucky finds out about Zed's Z-Band hack and has his followers Stacey, Tracey and Lacey steal Eliza's laptop to hack the Z-Bands. Before Homecoming, Addison insists to her parents that they don't want to meet her date, but is surprised when Zed shows up on her doorstep looking human. He and Addison leave her house and go on a date, where he admits he's been messing with his Z-band, Addison tells him that it is the others that have to change, not them.

At the homecoming game it seems that full acceptance for zombies is almost there. When Addison and Bree start showing their sympathy to the zombies during a cheer, Bucky has them kicked off the cheer squad. Stacey, Tracey, and Lacey succeed in their plot turning Zed, Eliza, and Bonzo into complete zombies. This interrupts the game and causes the Zombie Alarm to go off. The Zombie Patrol captures them and has them detained. Later, Addison shouts at the crowd, telling them it was their fault Zed transformed into a full zombie. She then rips off the wig exposing her naturally white hair.

Following the incident, Zed, Eliza, and Bonzo are returned to Zombietown. Addison states to the viewers that Bucky is changing the line-up for the cheer squad. Bucky is then shown cutting three members from his cheerleading group due to them sympathizing with the zombies.

On the day of the cheerleader competition, Addison and Bree find Zed and Bonzo trying to stop Eliza from sabotaging the competition, and after Eliza talks with her friends, she realizes that doing so is not the right thing to do. Bucky's team is failing because they do not have enough members, so Zoey tries to get in and help him. At first, Zoey is booed by the crowd, but with help from Addison and Zed, the zombies and cheerleaders come together to make a cheer routine during the Cheer competition (Fired Up- Competition). Zed and Addison tell each other they love each other.

Later, everyone has a block party at Zombietown. As Zoey finally gets her dog, the zombies and humans mingle with each other freely (BAMM- Zombie Block Party).

## Cast

* **Zed - (Milo Manheim), A Zombie football star.**
* **Addison** - (Meg Donnelly), A human cheerleader.
* **Bucky** - (Trevor Tordjman), Addison’s cousin and the head cheerleader.
* **Eliza** - (Kylee Russell), Zed’s zombie best friend.
* **Bree** - (Carla Jeffery), Addison’s friend.
* **Bonzo** - (James Godfrey), A Zombie and Zed's other friend.
* **Lacey** - (Emilia McCarthy), A member of cheerleading team.
* **Stacey** - (Jasmine Renée Thomas), A member of cheerleading team.
* **Tracey** - (Mickeey Nguyen), A member of cheerleading team.
* **Zoey** - (Kingston Foster), Zed's little sister.
* **Mrs. Lee** - (Naomi Snieckus), The principal of Seabrook High.
* **Missy** - (Marie Ward), The mayor of Seabrook.
* **Dale** - (Paul Hopkins), The chief of the Zombie Patrol.
* **Coach** - (Jonathan Langdon), The football coach of Seabrook High.
* **Mr. Zeck** - (Alex McCooeye), The zombie teacher and janitor of Seabrook High.

## Videos

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## Trivia

* It took 30 hairstylists to create one wig for the film.
* It took 4 weeks to rehearse and 6 weeks to film.
* The film was originally a pilot for Disney Channel back in 2011 called Zombies & Cheerleaders which ended, not getting picked up.
	+ Jerry and Bunny, both characters from the pilot, do not exist within the movie.
* Over 10.3 million people have seen the film.
* On February 11, 2019, it was announced that a sequel has gone into production with returning stars, director, and writers, with filming to take place in spring of 2019.
* This is the 2nd Disney Channel Original Movie that Kylee Russell has been in. The first one was back in 2007, Kylee played the little sister in the DCOM *Jump In!* which was directed by Paul Hoen, who is also the director of Z-O-M-B-I-E-S.

## References

1. ↑ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0805559/fullcredits?ref\_=tt\_cl\_sm#cast