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Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 2 (2020)

★ 7.5 · 505 ratings on TMDB

There's a new pack in town

Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 2 poster★ 7.5

Zed and Addison are back at Seabrook High, where, after a groundbreaking semester, they continue to steer both their school and community toward unity. But the arrival of a new group of outsiders – mysterious werewolves – threatens to shake up the newfound peace and causes a rift in Zed and Addison’s budding romance.

DirectorPaul Hoen
CastAriel Martin, Carla Jeffery, Chandler Kinney, James Godfrey, Kingston Foster, Kylee Russell
GenresFantasy, Romance, TV Movie
The emergence reading

In Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 2, consciousness is carried by the dead — a plane of “monster high school”. The story fights on E9/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing prejudice, politics, identity, integration, power.

↷ the deadUSprejudicepoliticsidentityintegrationpower
⇄ Parameter shift — the dial this world turnsrigor: loose
E6undeadmortality dial set to immortal undead – dead bodies reanimate as sentient zombies and werewolves (biology · universal)
Also inConsciousness hiding in the deadFilms about prejudiceFilms about identityFilms that alter a rule of reality
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Same rung, same subject

Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.

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Same subject, different rung

The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.

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Also bends a rule of reality

Other films that change a standing rule of their world — ranked first by those bending it at the same rung.

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Also hides consciousness here

Other films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.

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Same subject, different mask

The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

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