Andrea (
Virginia Madsen) is a teenage girl who has won a scholarship to Ettinger, a formerly all-male
boarding school. She leaves behind her boyfriend Barry (
James Wilder) in the hopes of scholastic achievement, but soon discovers that something seems wrong at Ettinger. Andrea finds that her friends are slowly changing from regular teenagers into faceless drones. Some investigation shows that the school's faculty has been harvesting life-sustaining chemicals from the student body, which makes them seemingly perfect students who are focused on doing well in school and obeying rules. Andrea is spared from this fate by one of her professors, Philo (
Richard Cox), who takes pity on her because of her resemblance to a former lover. Along with her boyfriend, Andrea discovers that the staff uses
classical music to stabilize the students. Philo gives her a tape to play over the loudspeaker system, which he claims will stop the faculty and students from capturing her and turning her into a zombie, only for her to lose it while the students chase her. With nothing to lose, Barry plays a tape of
rock music in its place, accomplishing the desired task of stopping the students and saving their lives. ==Cast==