Film Music Reporter

Lee Malia (of the British rock band Bring Me the Horizon) has composed the original score for the upcoming zombie horror thriller This Is Not a Test. The film is written and directed by Adam MacDonald (Backcountry) and stars Olivia Holt, Froy Gutierrez, Luke MacFarlane, Corteon Moore, Chloe Avakian and Carson MacCormac. The movie based on the YA novel of the same name by Courtney Summers follows a suicidal teen and a small group of her classmates who get caught within the chaos of a zombie outbreak and escape their suddenly apocalyptic hometown streets by barricading themselves in their high school. MacDonald is also producing the project with Cybill Lui (The Silencing, Warning) of Anova Pictures. Malia has previously scored MacDonald’s last two features Pyewacket and Out Come the Wolves. This Is Not a Test is premiering tonight at the Brooklyn Horror Film Festival and has just been picked up by the Independent Film Company and Shudder for a release in 2026.