Warning: The introduction of this article contains spoilers for School Spirits season 2.Milo Manheim’s new movie is the perfect thing to watch while waiting for moreSchool Spirits. Paramount+’s supernatural teen drama stars Manheim as 1980s jock ghost Wally Clark opposite Peyton List as modern teen Maddie Nears, who finds herself in the spirit world at her school and meets the ghosts of various former students while trying to solve her own disappearance.
TheupcomingSchool Spiritsseason 3has been officially greenlit, butit has still not gone into production in spite of season 2 ending in early March. Therefore, the wait between seasons might stretch just as long as the 21-month wait between the season 1 finale and the season 2 premiere, if not longer.
This is especially frustrating because theSchool Spiritsseason 2 endingleaves Wally’s fate unclear, implying thathe may have chosen to cross overinstead of remaining behind with his friends and his love interest, Maddie. While Wally’s future remains unknown, Manheim himself is the star of a brand-new movie that can tide nervous fans over.
Zombies 4: Dawn Of The Vampires Is Out Now
The Milo Manheim Franchise Has A Lot In Common With School Spirits
2025’sZombies 4: Dawn of the Vampiresis now available on Disney+, continuing the iconic Disney Channel musical franchise that kicked off in 2018. The franchise stars Milo Manheim as Zed Necrodopolis,a teenage zombie who has a number of major similarities with Wally Clark.
In addition to also being a teenager who is also a supernatural “monster,” Zed’s similarities to Wally include the fact thatboth characters are football players. Both Zed and Wally are also the romantic leads of their respective franchises, harbor fears that their supernatural status will impede their relationships, and are somewhat unintelligent but immensely charming.
Zombies 4: Dawn of the Vampiresfollows Zed and his half-human, half-alien girlfriend Addison (Meg Donnelly) helping resolve a conflict between vampires and daywalkers.
TheZombiesmoviesalsobring one major element of Wally’s character to the forein a way thatSchool Spiritsdoes not. While Wally clearly enjoys singing and dancing, as he has been at the center of a number of music-based sequences, the Paramount+ show is not a musical.
Zombies 4is a full-on musical, however, just like its predecessors. Thisallows Manheim to show off his musical theater prowessin multiple scenes, including a tap dance sequence, a gritty rap-rock song, and many highly choreographed production numbers.
WhileZombies 4: Dawn of the Vampiressets up its story well enough that it does not require viewers to have seen the previous three installments, theDisney Channel Original Moviescollectively form a solid quadrilogy, all of which center on Milo Manheim’s Zed in a way that should help tide viewers over while waiting for moreSchool Spirits.
