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Zombillenium (French: Zombillénium) is a 2017 French-Belgian animated film directed by Arthur de Pins and Alexis Ducord, based on the comic series of the same name. It was shown in the Special Screening section at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival.

In Zombillenium, the Halloween theme park, the monsters are unhappy. Not only are the zombies, vampires, werewolves, and other demons real monsters whose souls belong to the devil forever, they are also tired by their jobs, tired of entertaining consumerist, voyeuristic, and egotistical human beings. In short, they are fed up with office life in general, particularly when it is destined to last for eternity. Then Hector, a human being, arrives. This Standards Compliance Officer is determined to close down the park. Francis, the vampire manager of the park has no other option: he must bite in order to keep their secret. Transformed into a strange monster, separated from his daughter Lucie, and stuck in the park, Hector has a dark outlook on life. What if he finally became the new leading attraction of Zombillenium?

* AbhorrentAdmirer: What [[spoiler: Lucie's teacher]] becomes to [[spoiler: Steven.]]

* AssholeVictim: The teacher kinda get what she deserves from [[spoiler: Hector]] for being a bully to the children, specially his daughter.

* BadBoss: [[spoiler: What Steven is after he takes over the park.]]

* BigNo: What Lucie screams when [[spoiler: Hector, in a fit of rage, tries to strangle her teacher for harassing her.]]
* BigRedDevil: What Hector becomes when he is bitten by Francis, a vampire, and Blaise, a werewolf. [[spoiler: Exaggerated after his second transformation.]]

* CharacterDevelopment: Hector starts as a safety obsessed inspector who wants to shut down the park, but he slowly starts to care for it and even tries to save it from [[spoiler: Steven and the Vampires.]]
** Gretchen has one too. [[spoiler: She starts being dissmissive and annoyed by the zombies, but then starts to genuinely care about them and even falls in love with Hector.]]

* GoodParents: Zig-Zagged, Hector, despite truly loving his daughter confesses he was a bad father for not being there for her enough after [[spoiler: her mother died]], and for sending her to a boarding school. He gets better.

* HiddenDepths: It is revealed that before [[spoiler: his wife death, Hector used to play in a band. But he had to give that up and get a better job to take care of his daughter.]]
* HulkingOut: Hector, when he first becomes a monster, his transformation advancing as his rage peaks. [[spoiler: After his second transformation he gets ''massive''.]]

* KnightTemplarParent: Hector will become this if he sees someone trying to hurt his daughter.[[spoiler: Just ask her teacher...]]

* ManipulativeBitch: Steven manipulates Gretchen into believing he is jealous of [[spoiler: her attraction to Hector]] and that he wants the park to be better, when what he really wants is [[spoiler: to take over the park and turn it into an only vampire amusement park.]] He also tells her he wants her to shine and convinces her to perform in front of the investors so they can see her potential, when in truth he is just [[spoiler: using her to distract Francis so he can talk to the investors into making him the new manager.]]

* MissingMom: [[spoiler: Hector's wife and Lucie's mom is revealed very early in the movie to have been dead for a long time.]]
* MoralityPet: Lucie is this to Hector, since [[spoiler: her terrified scream is the only thing to snap him out from his rage-fueled mind state.]]
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone?: Hector when [[spoiler: he sees how his actions have utterly scared his daughter.]]

* ParentWithNewParamour: [[spoiler: The ending implies that Hector and Gretchen are in a relationship, which Lucie totally approves.]]

* RoaringRampageOfRescue: Hector's mood when he hears [[spoiler: Steven manhandling his daughter]] over the intercome. No need to say [[spoiler: Steven]] is in for some epic ass whooping.
* ShipperOnDeck: [[spoiler: Lucie]] becomes this for [[spoiler: Hector and Gretchen.]]

* SingleSpecimenSpecies: Nobody at the park, not even Francis, has any idea of what the heck Hector is after he becomes a monster. At the climax of the movie, it turns out that being bitten by a vampire and a werewolf basically turns you into a [[spoiler: BigRedDemon.]]

* TokenEvilTeammate: The employees of the park actually are all nice people, with the exception of Steven, who is a [[ItsAllAboutMe narcissistic]] {{Jerkass}} who [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain looks down upon other monster races]], especially zombies. He is also the main antagonist who wants to take over the park.
* WritersCantDoMath: Due to the RetCanon. The movie is set ten-ish years prior to the comics, but in both, Von Bloodt has been the director of the park for fifteen years (the date of creation of the park being very relevant, as Astaroth was abandonned as a newborn by his mother on the construction site).
* WouldHitAGirl: [[spoiler: Steven]] has no problems knocking down [[spoiler: Gretchen to stop her from helping Lucie find her dad.]]
* WouldHurtAChild: [[spoiler: Steven is a bastard who has zero problems with threatening to attack and bite Lucie to turn her into a vampire so Hector doesn't smash him into pieces.]]

* AmbiguouslyHuman: Gretchen is the most human-looking employee of the park, yet, she is a witch. [[spoiler:And her father is the Devil himself.]]

* BigRedDevil: What Hector becomes when he is bitten by Francis and a werewolf. [[spoiler: Exaggerated after his second transformation.]]

* FurAgainstFang: Downplayed; Francis tries turning him, which elicits a bite from a werewolf, as he thinks there are enough vampires at the park. In the comics they go back and forth biting him until he wakes up.

* RaceLift: Hector is changed from a white man to a black man.

* TakeThat: The main antagonist of the film is basically an [[Literature/{{Twilight}} Edward Cullen]] expy. In general, the movie seems to satirize the trend of sanitized "romantic" monsters as something dull and commercially motivated.

* BigRedDevil: What Hector becomes when he is bitten by Francis and a werewolf. [[spoiler: this is taken {{UpToEleven}} after his second transformation.]]

* AdultFear: When Hector realises he left his daughter in a boarding school with a madwoman of a teacher and when he sees she [[spoiler: is about to get launched to her death in the broken Rollercoaster.]]

* AttractiveZombie: Dolores. Before her makeover she was quite pretty for a zombie, but after the CostumeTestMontage she is straight up hot. It doesn't help that she's wearing a tight bodysuit, high-heeled boots, and make up that makes her look like she is from the Dia de los Muertos holiday, which makes sense, given she has a Spanish accent.

* AmbiguouslyHuman: Gretchen is the most human-looking employee of the park, yet, she is a witch. [[spoiler:And her father is the Devil himself]].

* AmbiguouslyHuman: Gretchen is the most human-looking employee of the park, yet, she is a witch [[spoiler:, and her father is the Devil himself]].

* BlueIsHeroic: [[spoiler: after losing her powers, Gretchen gains new ones whose main colour scheme is blue]]

%%* BigBad: [[spoiler: Steven]]

* BerserkButton: Hurting his daughter is a big one for Hector.
* BigBad: [[spoiler: Steven]]

* BigBad: [[ Spoiler: Steven ]]

* BigBad: [[Spoiler: Steven]]

* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: Steven may be popular among girls and teenagers, but with his coworkers? Not so much.

* FlyingBroomstick: Witch Gretchen uses a standard broom, except she ''stands'' on it when flying, SkySurfing-style.

* AmbiguouslyHuman: Gretchen is the most human-looking employee of the park, yet, she is a witch [[spoiler: and her father is the Devil]].

* TakeThat: The main antagonist of the film is basically an [[Literature/{{Twilight}} Edward Cullen]] expy. In general, the movie satirized. the trend of sanitized "romantic" monsters.

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