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 more School 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.
The upcoming School Spirits season 3 has been officially greenlit, but it 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 the School Spirits season 2 ending leaves Wally’s fate unclear, implying that he may have chosen to cross over instead 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’s Zombies 4: Dawn of the Vampires is 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 that both 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 Vampires follows Zed and his half-human, half-alien girlfriend Addison (Meg Donnelly) helping resolve a conflict between vampires and daywalkers.
The Zombies movies also bring one major element of Wally’s character to the fore in a way that School Spirits does 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 4 is a full-on musical, however, just like its predecessors. This allows Manheim to show off his musical theater prowess in multiple scenes, including a tap dance sequence, a gritty rap-rock song, and many highly choreographed production numbers.
While Zombies 4: Dawn of the Vampires sets up its story well enough that it does not require viewers to have seen the previous three installments, the Disney Channel Original Movies collectively 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 more School Spirits.
