This is a movie review for "The Girl With All The Gifts", first released in Switzerland on August 3, 2016 at the Locarno Film Festival . My friend and I watched this (on April 26, 2020) because we find the genre of zombie/supernatural very interesting.
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Run Time: 1 Hour and 51 Minutes
Official MPAA Rating (According to IMDB.com):
G / General Audiences
PG / Parental Guidance Suggested
PG-13 / Parents Strongly Cautioned
R / Restricted
X
Not Rated
Trailer
Notable Cast
Sennia Nanua ... Melanie
Fisayo Akinade ... Kieran Gallagher
Dominique Tipper ... Devani
Paddy Considine ... Sgt Eddie Parks
Anamaria Marinca ... Dr. Jean Selkirk
Gemma Arterton ... Helen Justineau
Anthony Welsh ... Dillon
Glenn Close ... Dr. Caroline Caldwell
Plot
Children, housed in cells with military personnel watching over them, are dressed in prison-orange attire. They are strapped down to wheelchairs (at their head, wrists, and ankles) before they are taken to class. The children never show to be different than other children, aside the way they are dressed, housed, and bound in the wheelchairs, but they are different. They are zombies. The military, medical staff and whomever else interacts with them have to wear a special block to make the zombie children not froth at the mouth because of the scent of human skin.
One doctor is trying to find a cure for the zombie affliction and she thinks that one child, Melanie, holds the cure. Of course, she thinks that the way to get this cure is to harvest the brain. Melanie has different thoughts as she sees herself as alive, though she does have cravings for flesh.
The complex is run over by a massive amount of outside zombies and Melanie helps her teacher escape. They have to figure out how to survive with all of the zombies outside of the complex. How many of them will survive? Is there a way for zombies and humans to live side by side?
Rating Criteria
0/5 – No value whatsoever. Absolute waste of time.
1/5 – Barely worth any time.
2/5 – Pathetic but has a bit of something to hold the attention a little.
3/5 – Somewhat kept the attention but could definitely have used more.
4/5 – Good, but not awe-strikingly amazing. Could have maybe used a bit more to the movie.
5/5 – Go see it! Wonderful movie all around. – characters, music, theme, story line, etc.
4/5 - *SPOILERS* This is a different take on the zombie genre. Of course you still have the flesh eating but questions come up that make you ponder. At one point, they find a ob/gyn area where it seems like the babies ate their way out of the mothers (which is terrifying from any angle you can look at it). This made us sit and talk for a while because this is an angle that not many zombie movies have thought about. [Watching "The Walking Dead" recently has made me wonder too: if everyone was infected per the CDC guy, then would Lori's child have become a zombie if it was a stillborn or something like that?] I know that at least the 2004 movie "Dawn of the Dead" talked about a zombie baby but it didn't seem to explode out from its mother's womb, I don't think. Anyways, as a woman thinking about the fact that something that had been alive inside of you dies and then eats you from the inside out, or explodes through your womb/stomach to get out, is a very horrific thought.
The fact that the zombie infection is fungal (we see characters that look like they are growing mushrooms out of their body) is also very interesting. Most zombie movies are more of a blood-born pathogen or is, in general, just a virus of some sort, so to see plant-like infestations is very unique in my viewpoint for this genre. I like how they went about executing this idea, to the effect of showing brain scans with at least one child that the doctor had biopsied to find an antidote.
I also found it interesting that Melanie had to prove dominance over the wild children so that she could protect her teacher and help the wild children survive. She ends up bringing the children to her teacher so they can be taught as well, helping the new generation prepare for the future.
Here is a viewpoint on the movie. Credit to "The Binge Zone":
There's more to this movie that makes it interesting for me but I won't spoil the movie by going into more details. I would have to say, however, that this movie is definitely one of those that redefines the genre or brings something different to the genre (like "Warm Bodies" for the zombie genre). If you like this kind of thing, I would definitely recommend watching this movie. If you don't like gore or humanoids attacking each other, then pass this one up. If you like pathology / the study of how a disease/infection spreads, this is an interesting movie for you.
That's my movie review. Thank you for reading! More reviews to come eventually.
~ Gracie Mae DeLunac
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