This Is Not a Test is a horror thriller film starring Olivia Holt. Learn all about the streaming details, cast, plot, and ...

"We have to do things we don't want to do if we're going to make it." Well, yes, that's usually what happens in a horror movie. Shudder has revealed the official trailer for the horror film titled ...

The beginning of Adam MacDonald’s “This Is Not a Test” is disorienting – and not in the way you expect a zombie apocalypse movie to be. We meet our protagonist, Sloane (Olivia Holt). She’s sitting in ...

Isabella Soares is a Senior Writer for Collider, as well as a Cherry Picks-approved critic. A film and TV enthusiast from an early age, Isabella used to write reviews in her journal growing up, which ...

This Is Not a Test, no surprise given MacDonald’s unflinching genre background, will likely be a matter of taste. For the genre curious, it’s handsomely made, plenty tense, and postures as exactly the ...

School’s out forever in the new trailer for This Is Not a Test, a teen zombie movie from director Adam MacDonald (Pyewacket, Out Come the Wolves). Adapted from the novel of the same name by New York ...

The last decade also included a small crop of zombie films that felt far outside the norm, like international gems Train to Busan and One Cut of the Dead, the holiday musical Anna and the Apocalypse, ...

This Is Not a Test finishes its apocalypse story by zooming in from the massive zombie rampage to the emotional survival of the main character. Being one of the productions directed by Adam MacDonald, ...

Film based on Courtney Summers's bestseller This Is Not a Test in theatres this weekend. The film is in Canadian theatres on Feb. 27, 2026.

It’s rather amazing that zombie stories have become such a cinematic touchstone; a genre that audiences truly don’t seem to get tired of watching. There’s just something about the basic formula that ...