Zombie at 17 (2018)
About
A teenager racing to cure the virus that is turning her into a zombie also becomes the only witness to a murder.
With the exception of losing her older sister in a hit-and-run, 17-year-old Tia Scott has had a fairly ordinary life. That changes when she begins showing strange symptoms and works out that she has caught a virus which is slowly turning her into a zombie.
Desperate for a cure, the only person she trusts is Flynn, a loner at school and a self-proclaimed expert in the paranormal. Her position gets worse when a friend of her boyfriend Connor is murdered, because Tia knows who was involved and going to the police would make her a target.
With the clock running down until she is too far gone to recover, she brings in her mother Kate and a reclusive doctor in the hope of stopping the disease before the killer works out that she is the witness.
Zombie at 17 (2018) is part of Christine Conradt's long-running "at 17" cycle of Lifetime television films, each a self-contained story about a teenage girl whose life is derailed by a single event.
Where to Watch
- Premiered on Lifetime (United States), October 27, 2018
- Search Amazon for Zombie at 17
Details
Director: Alexandre Carrière
Writer/Screenplay: Christine Conradt
Producer: Neil Bregman, Steve Boisvert
Running time: 85 minutes
Genre: Drama, Science Fiction, Thriller
Released: October 27, 2018
Music Composer: Richard Bowers
Cast
- Laurie Fortier as Kate Scott
- Celeste Desjardins as Tia Scott
- Seamus Patterson as Flynn Murson
- Carson MacCormac as Connor Foster
- Michael Gordin Shore as Dr. Will Murson
- Alanna Bale as Sammy Feldon
Franchise
One of nine Lifetime films written by Christine Conradt under the "... at 17" title pattern:
- Dead at 17 (2008)
- Accused at 17 (2009)
- Betrayed at 17 (2011)
- Stalked at 17 (2012)
- Missing at 17 (2013)
- Guilty at 17 (2014)
- Pregnant at 17 (2016)
- Murdered at 17 (2018)
- Zombie at 17 (2018)
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Trivia
- The film is the ninth and last of the Lifetime titles written by Christine Conradt whose names follow the pattern "... at 17".
- It is the only entry in the series with a supernatural or science-fiction premise, the rest being grounded crime and issue dramas.
- It holds the second lowest IMDb rating in the cycle, ahead only of Dead at 17 (2008).
- It shares its cinematographer, editor and composer with Pregnant at 17 (2016) and Murdered at 17 (2018).
Critical Reception
Zombie at 17 is the outlier of the sequence, swapping the cycle's usual grounded threat for an infection story while keeping the same structure of a teenage girl racing a deadline she cannot tell anyone about. On IMDb the film holds an average user rating of approximately 4.7 out of 10 from around 270 votes, the second lowest in the series.
Reviews
- IMDb users give the film an average rating of approximately 4.7 out of 10 from around 270 votes.
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Production
Zombie at 17 was directed by Alexandre Carrière from a screenplay by Christine Conradt. Neil Bregman and Steve Boisvert produced, with Christine Conradt, Pierre David, Tom Berry and Sebastian Battro as executive producers. Cinematography was by Bill St. John, editing by Jordan Jensen and music by Richard Bowers, the same technical team as Pregnant at 17 (2016) and Murdered at 17 (2018).
The "at 17" series
Christine Conradt wrote nine Lifetime television films sharing the "... at 17" title pattern, running from Dead at 17 (2008) through to Murdered at 17 (2018) and Zombie at 17 (2018). The films are not a continuing story and share no characters; what links them is a common formula, in which an otherwise ordinary teenage girl makes one decision, or suffers one piece of bad luck, that exposes her to adult danger.
Zombie at 17 is the ninth and final film in the sequence, released three months after Murdered at 17 (2018).
