July 10, 2025
Zombies 4: Dawn of the Vampires is a 2025 American vampire musical film. It is the fourth installment in the Zombies series, and is a sequel to the 2022 film Zombies 3. Initially intended to be a Disney+ Original, the film was released on Disney Channel on July 10, 2025 and July 11, 2025 on Disney+.
Storyline
Zed, Addison, Eliza, and Willa have finished their freshman year at Mountain College. Zed and Addison have spent most of the year dedicated to their respective sports, football and cheerleading. Both have been so focused on succeeding that they have spent almost no time with each other or with their other friends. Zed plans on going to a summer football camp to prove he is worthy of “first string” status, while Addison plans on going to a summer cheer camp to make herself competitive for cheer captain.
Zed, Addison, Eliza, and Willa take a road trip to their respective summer destinations when a mysterious energy surge causes Zed’s Z-band to malfunction, running their car off the road. The crash leaves the group lost in an unknown area, and they split up to find help.
Zed encounters a new group of monsters, the Daywalkers, led by Commander Bright. Then Addison encounters the Vampires, led by the Vampire Eldress. The two groups have a longstanding rivalry from competing over a shared and dwindling food/energy source: Blood Fruit. Nova and Victor both face pressure from elders to do whatever it takes to secure Blood Fruit for their clan.
The Daywalkers and Vampires arrive to the Blood Fruit orchard at the same time, alongside Eliza and Willa, but the gate to the orchard is locked. While searching for clues on how to unlock the gate, the young groups of Daywalkers, led by Nova, and Vampires, led by Victor, settle into the abandoned Camp Rayburn, a camp where the ancestors of Daywalkers and Vampires use to co-exist which makes Nova and Victor meet and start remembering their visions of each other.
Zed, Addison, Eliza, and Willa find themselves acting as camp counselors between the two opposing groups, hoping to convince them to work together. Nova and Victor bond over shared visions of each other, believing something supernatural is drawing them together. Meanwhile, the mysterious energy surges continue, threatening harm to zombies and werewolves far beyond the camp.
The Daywalkers and the Vampires slowly begin to work together and are ultimately able to overcome their differences and open the gate to the Blood Fruit orchard. However, when the elders arrive, they are shocked to see the two groups working together, and inadvertently burn half the orchard down. The elders threaten war against each other, and the two groups separate.
Zed, Eliza, and Willa discover that the dying Blood Fruit roots are what is causing the dangerous energy surges. Nova and Victor believe that uniting their peoples’ moonstones will help heal the roots and stop the energy surges, but they fear bringing the moonstones together would be an impossible task. Addison and a weakened Zed “pass the torch” and encourage them to make the impossible possible.
The Daywalkers and the Vampires work together to rebel against the elders and are able to unite their moonstones, which heals the roots, stopping the energy surges, ending the feud between the two groups, and causing miraculous Blood Fruit growth. The united monsters celebrate the accomplishment. Zed and Addison reflect on their experience and decide to spend the rest of the summer with loved ones, choosing to value relationships over personal achievement. Nova and Victor promise to remain in touch, but before they go their separate ways, Nova goes up to Victor to give him a hug. Then Nova and Victor see a supernatural water spout form over the ocean.