Channel 4 have dropped a short promo for the darkly comic series in which flesh-eating baby-boomers get a taste for teenagers.
Back in October 2023, we got a first look at images from Generation Z.
Now, the gory comedy has a trailer and a start date of 27th October at 9pm.
Generation Z comes from director Ben Wheatley (High Rise, Meg 2: The Trench). The show promises to look at intergenerational justice and community breakdown through the lens of a zombie outbreak. Frankly, it looks like a lot of fun!
Generation Z‘s cast straddles the ages. Sue Johnston, Anita Dobson and Robert Lindsay star alongside Jay Lycurgo, Buket Komur, Lewis Gribben and Viola Prettejohn.
Here’s the full synopsis for Generation Z:
The future looks bleak for today’s youth – seemingly-endless austerity, astronomical house prices, insurmountable student debt, a political system which appears intent on destroying itself… And to add insult to injury, their hard-earned taxes are being eaten up by the old – smug, self-satisfied, small-minded, ‘Little Englander’ pensioners whose remaining sole purpose in life is to make it a misery for everyone else.
In a small British town, tensions come to a head when a mysterious military convoy crashes outside the Sunnywise Retirement Home. The vehicles were carrying a toxic substance, which, as a result of the crash, leaks into the local environment and infects the residents of the retirement community. The symptoms of this infection quickly manifest: an overwhelming appetite for raw flesh. They’re old, they’re angry and they’re on the rampage. As the military scrambles to control the outbreak and keep everything out of the media spotlight, a group of regular teenagers find themselves in the thick of the battle against these flesh-eating baby boomers.
Generation Z comes from The Forge (National Treasure, Kiri) for Channel 4, in association with ZDF and All3media International. Ben Wheatley writes and directs, and Alex Kazamia produces. The executive producers are Wheatley, Mark Pybus, George Faber and Beth Willis.
As we said, the show lands on Sunday, 27th October at 9pm. Or, it’s available to stream now with a Channel 4+ subscription.