The fact that this movie has two sequels where werewolves and aliens are thrown in the mix is actually mental.

Imagine you're a young actor who just got the lead in a Disney Original musical, just so close to being the next Zac Efron, and you open the script and read the line "who's the zombie? I'm the zombie. And this zombie's playing some ball!"

Zed: I’m separated from society for being a Zombie. Addison: I’m….-sniffles- a blonde.

The fact that the metaphor would have been infinitely better off the zombies just never ate people and propaganda was just pushed around saying they did

I love that half-zombie mode is completely berserk, superhuman strength and speed, while full-zombie mode is just like, mildly infuriated and barely able to walk. Makes total sense.

“theyre just people with green hair” “dont you eat people?” the duality of dan

18:57 Imagine your whole school is freaking out from flesh eating monsters getting out of control and then some random cheerleader just rips off her wig

“Think think brainblast” LMFAO JUST FELL OFF MY CHAIR 13:40

"not only is this a bad zombie movie, it's also a terrible metaphor for racism" - Danny Gonzalez 2023

I love how he guessed that Addison is tiny bit Zombie, but the truth is it takes two other movies to find out she's actually half Alien, which is so much more stupid than the part Zombie idea.

There’s a really great show called In the Flesh (that only got to run for two seasons rip) about the aftermath of a zombie apocalypse where the zombies have been “cured” but they have to have to take medication consistently or they’ll revert back to their mindless state. There’s a lot of tension from people who don’t want them back because they ate people, they have to wear contact lenses and makeup to blend in, and a lot of the zombies have ptsd from the entire experience. It’s very interesting. Also it’s not treated as a one-to-one allegory, but in the places where it’s analogous to anything it’s about being queer rather than racism. So the premise can be done. Just not like this 😅

This could be a really good psychological thriller where the zombies are conflicted about whether they’re the same as before they died, fighting to keep their loved ones from before the accident in their lives… the guilt about the things they did that they barely remember…

Imagine cannibals are allowed to enter your school and you just have to be ok that they’re there because they have watches on

It's actually incredible that Disney made a movie that both preaches acceptance and also justifies racism

i am so mad that they didnt just make addison albino. she was "born" with white hair THAT IS LITERALLY ALBINISM. "doctors cant explain it" ITS JUST ALBINISM!!! they couldve gotten an albino actress as well! and we couldve explored the struggles addison faces with being albino!! but NOOOO

For me, what truly killed any chance of this movie being good is the fact that they gave the oppressors an actual, legitimate reason to oppress the zombies.

I honestly think it’s funny how Danny switches between: “zombies are just people with green hair” And “zombies are vicious monsters, who will eat people’s pets, and babies” Edit: plus how both statements are technically correct

The fact that the cheerleaders knowingly sent the zombies into monster mode just to sabotage them is quite frankly horrifying

I feel I need to point this out. "Anything different is bad and we hate you if you are" is beyond racism; instead, it falls into the category of FASCISM

I can tell you from my daughter having a "Z-O-M-B-I-E-s" themed birthday part the songs are NOT unforgettable....I wish they were.

Ok so now we all can agree that danny isn't aging, he is just part zombie, part vampire. That's why he looks young but his hair is getting gray.

I'll never get over how all the zombies in this movie look like those edits with random characters recolored to be the Joker

playing this video in front of my sister and when he said "just guys with pale skin and green hair" she went "so just emos" thought that was worth sharing

ziggty zack zo zan ziggy zat zong!!! 4:39

How did anyone think that “girl you look delicious oh I mean gorgeous” was a funny little romantic line that wouldn’t send most people RUNNING

I'm finding Danny's search for self-identity very cathartic. Sure, he might not be a radio rebel, a camp rock, a princess protection program, or a zombie, but he isn't given up and neither should we

The scene where a grown adult man heckles a little girl out of nowhere is one of my favorite few seconds of any movie. I'm so glad you caught on to the absurdity of it.

dead bodies are more flammable because they have less water content so zombies (being that they're sort of walking corpses) actually burn a lot and would be scared of fire.

Love how Danny is between "these are just people with green hair" and "they actually eat people".

I love how Addison thinks that having white hair is comparable and on the same level as Zed and his friends being ostracized, feared and harassed because they’re monsters

fun fact. im a cheerleader from nova scotia canada and quite a few cheerleaders from here were in the movie to play background cheerleaders so they could actually do the skills. one of my coaches was even in it. i remember watching it for the first time and being shocked thinking oh my god is that _____? and it was.

i cannot get over the fact that it only took 50 years for people to accept that zombies aren't bad people because of their race but it took around 400 years for that same treatment to even start to disintegrate for black people

You missed a pivotal point in the movie, where Zed swipes right on his Z-Band, and he turns into a human to impress Addison's parents. He had that ability THE WHOLE TIME.

No because Addison thinking her white hair allows her to relate to the oppression the zombies experience is actually perfect

addison’s “i’m gonna stand” is giving “y/n fight song”

as someone who has watched the other two movies....don't get upset about the zombies just having green hair. The aliens...people from another planet, look like teenagers with blue hair XD I love this series

I love how the bullies entire plan was just to endanger the entire school for no reason, and then were scared and surprised that "oh no the zombies are coming after me".

I don't think I'll ever get over Addison's character "flaw" being that she has to wear a wig, and that she somehow thinks it's the same as being systematically oppressed 😭 Side note: Can we please discuss the fact that Seabrook is infested with zombies all because some jackass spilled lime soda by accident?

Danny: now she’s kind of flirting with the faceless shadow figure 7:35

"We're gonna be someday" or whatever the song is called was my jam when this movie came out

I demand that Danny watch the other Zombie movies so we can finally find out the lore of the white hair.

Eliza is actually such a confusing character bc she’s always like “humans are terrible and they hate us for no reason!!” And it’s like… idk if it’s for NO reason, Eliza. You have to wear government issued technology on your body at all times to keep you from cannibalizing your classmates

A couple years ago, my father and I watched this movie at 2 AM after our dog woke us up. We were astounded by the break dancing and lyrical feats of the film. Also, the fence separating the Zombies/Humans felt very reminiscent of WWII Era ghettos. We have watched this film three times at this point. I hope we will watch it again soon.

Danny is gonna be so stunned when he finds out Addison is actually an alien

Danny's theory of Addison being part zombie is justified, but little does he know that she's actually an alien (I'm genuinely not lying) 💀

i think i would be racist towards the zombies

not danny seeing a bald zombie and calling him a troll

"*random gibberish* "he just dropped that in zombie" me trying to find out the truth

It's always the power plants causing zombies

I’m really glad Danny highlighted how the racism analogy fundamentally does not work. The same issue applies to most racism allegories in fiction because the stand in for minorities is always mutants, aliens, etc, but that comparison will always fall short because in the real world minorities literally have zero differences beyond superficial aesthetics. Even if the zombies never ate people the allegory still doesn’t work because they are still on some level physiologically different to humans in a way ie black people to white people aren’t

19:30 fucking killed me

Zombies being afraid of fire is actually a Frankenstein trope. Al tho it does make some sort of sense since Frankensteins monster is an amalgamation of dead people body parts, and other stuff given life through electricity. But that brings the question if a zombie needs to be an dead or could be just an alive monster

Obsessed with Danny mercilessly bullying that tall haired kid without breaking character once

I love how Danny went from ghosting Kevin Jonas to roasting Kevin Jonas😭

14:15 the audible shoe shuffling though 😭

11:30 i need everyone to look at the extra standing just behind Zed here, the guy in the pink shirt😅

i love how she says "doctors cant explain it" when there are literally several reasons that someone can be born with white hair loll

Guys I think we owe Danny an apology.After countless videos none of us have answered “what is up, Greg” Well Danny, nothing much how about you

1:45 it’s funny because I never realized until now that…the zombies and beetlejuice have the same vibe when it comes to hair colors and makeup choices 💀

Love that this movie completely ignores the fact that they’re still zombies, meaning they’re still decaying and rotting as they “live”. So they’ll constantly have the rancid and rotten stench of death about them at all times, but nahhh. Those are just details. We don’t pay attention to those here at Disney

Fun fact, I worked at Disney World for a little bit and attended the filming of the 2019 Disney Channel Christmas special. The audience right in front of the main stage was all Cast Members (so, people college age and older). While I was there, they were filming the girl who plays Addison singing and dancing to a song for the special. In between takes, while she was mic’d up, she asked the crowd, “Who here has seen ZOMBIES??” I shit you not, one person raised their hand. She asked what they thought of it, and they yelled back “It was alright” 😭😭

I feel like the metaphor would be a lot better if Zed found out at the climax of the movie that his Z-band didn’t actually do anything. That he was still just a normal guy with green hair. That the whole story about the zombies attacking everyone was false

Danny, It's a trampoline. The zombies are not bouncy, its a trampoline.

Do zombies grow old? Are they decomposing slowly? Do they stink? Do they keep the same personality they had when they were alive? Also, can they reproduce?? Or is the zomby population juste growing and growing as people die?

Addison comparing her white hair to the zombies literally being oppressed has got to be the most mind boggling thing in this entire movie

Danny’s theory for Addison’s hair makes much more sense than the actual cause they came up with in the movies

The way Danny basically guessed the second movie with the trolls joke 💀💀💀 in case y’all don’t know Danny’s right, there’s werewolves in the sequel and apparently the zombies don’t even like them until the end 💀💀💀💀💀💀

that wig moment was almost as iconic as roxy in drag race

Lmao for a “zombie safe room” he seemed to be able to open it pretty easily

No joke this movie was filmed on my university campus (one of our buildings was used as the high school). Seeing green haired teen zombies dance and sing in the halls of the building where I had my anthropology lectures is a wild experience.

Never realized how strange this one was, only watched it once Addison gives me “hey Barbie” vibes

we all love anti racism allegories where there are fundamental differences between the minority and the hegemony! especially when those differences are things like the minority being inherently more violent! we all love anti racism plots where the success of integration hinges partially on what the members of the minority have to offer to the hegemony!

One of my biggest fears as a writer is making something so bad it ends up in a Danny Gonzalez's video

this movie says as much about our society as that one pepsi commercial where kendall jenner takes a break from a photoshoot to save a street protest... by handing one of the crowd control officers a can of pepsi 💀

(12:14) well how *else* do you win? 🤨

2:16 Zed wants to experience the epic highs and lows of high school football

The "I'm gonna stand" scene is actually a fantastic subtle commentary on modern racism, where after a tragedy an uninvolved white girl insists on making it entirely about herself.

So this movie unironically teaches kids that racism is completely rational.

11:41 why did i slightly hear the chug splash sound or am i just crazy like think about the chug splash sound

I'm so confused on if Danny is pro-zombie integration or anti-zombie integration

Danny is so brave for saying that Romeo and Juliet rip-offs need to end in the same level of tragedy as the actual Romeo and Juliet.

This has quickly turned into one of my favorite channels on KZfaq! Funny and witty. Kudos Danny!

Addison be like “I’m not blonde, I’m really blonde!”

His theory for Addison's hair is so much better then whatever the heck the movies decided to do.

Okay I have an embarrassing story… When this movie came out I was about nine, and I fucking loved this movie. I memorized the songs and made my friends memorize it too, and I rewatched it multiple times. about a year later my mom told me she was pregnant, and I being the dumbass I was suggested the name “Aliza” as in the zombie from the movie. I didn’t actually think they would like it as much as they did, but they were absolutely dead set on this name. Now I have a four year old sister who will never know she’s actually named after a weird Disney movie.

Yoo! When he talked about how the zombies bounce!! That is sooo so so random! Hahahaha the bounce sound. And then it just gets right back into the rest of it. I’m dead dude this is hilarious.

I love how he says “I thought they would be fast or strong or scary or something but they are SLOW” then he just says “just leave” the best advice ever

i love how the zombies can't have pets because people think they'll eat them, but they can go to school still...no one's too worried about the kids at school but they draw the line at dogs

I love how Danny goes from wondering if zed had ate anyone to just deciding he definitely had

The idea of zombies actually traces back to Africa and then developed in the Caribbean, particulary Haiti. The idea comes from slaves and voodoo and the belief that a person's soul can be captured, much like a slave is captured. The first references of zombies in the US were closely related to salvery. The film "White Zombie' is where white zombies started to come about and after that the zombies we know became mainstream. So the idea of zombies is related to oppression.

you think theres some guy named greg watching these and he always takes everything personally like some onesided conversation

I like how Danny doesn't think random fence movers are probably just a bald zombie

As a person with green hair, I also need a Z-band to stop myself from going absolutely batshit crazy.

Danny is the only channel i watch where i actually laugh out loud. Always catches me off gaurd 😂

OMG PLEASE MAKE THIS A SERIES I NEED TO SEE THE NEXT TWO GET REVEALED

i love how they make it seem like it’s wrong to discriminate against zombies when they’ll literally eat you without their apple watches?? also THEY CAN TURN THEM OFF AT WILL?!?!

I love how at 16:26 Danny’s like “and theres actually trolls too” and little does he know there are werwolves and aliens to come later 💀

Can we also mention the signs under the name of the high school at 6:28 saying “normals” on one side of the fence and the zombie side saying “zombies” like what 😶🫤😐🙄 and their being a security guard on the zombie side but not the human side

this is genuinely hilarious i forgot how much i love your content

I think the backstory really muddies the whole “race allegory” this movie is going for, because it makes the situation far more complicated. I mean, the zombies apparently killed and ate people, and the only thing stopping them from doing it again is an electronic band. I’m pretty sure that’s a scary situation for everyone, both zombie and human, and it makes a conflict resolution way more difficult than I think this movie can manage. As an alternative, they could’ve made zombies just rise out of the ground one day. They don’t kill anyone, they’re just a medical anomaly where the dead are reanimating. But give the humans a lot of false preconceptions about zombie culture based off of legends and their depictions in media. This could not only do the race allegory better, but also show how racist depictions in media can affect how people view a certain race.