Driven to Dance

Zombies is a 2018 American teen musical film that premiered on Disney Channel on February 16, 2018 as a Disney Channel Original Movie. The film stars Milo Manheim and Meg Donnelly, playing zombie football player Zed Necrodopolis and human cheerleader Addison Wells who meet and fall in love, and who must lead their respective groups to coexist with each other. The film takes some concepts, plot elements, and namesakes from an unaired 2011 Disney Channel pilot, titled Zombies & Cheerleaders by David Light and Joseph Raso. Critically, Zombies received mixed reviews with praise directed towards the positive messages and songs but criticism towards the plot's predictability. Zombies was a success upon its premiere; the movie received just over two and a half million views during its initial February 2018 premiere., 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+.