Note: due to a wordpress plugin glitch, this movie’s title may be truncated. It’s “The Girl With All The Gifts”
Kind of a new take on some tired old zombie tropes. This starts off reeeeeeally dull for a while but eventually picks up nicely. It’s one of those British horror films that tries to actually be a good movie rather than just going for scares, and by and large it works. It’s got pretty much the first new ideas of any sort in the genre since “28 Days Later”, which it builds on thematically with its infected-humans-standing-in-for-living-dead trope.
If “Night Of The Living Dead” is the Beatles of zombie movies, and “28 Days Later” is the Rolling Stones, this is the Faces at their best. (And, by the way, continuing the metaphor, “Dawn Of The Dead” is Paul McCartney & Wings at their peak, and the obscure 1964 Vincent Price movie “The Last Man on Earth” is Chuck Berry.)
Don’t want to say too much because I don’t want to ruin it. But, suffice to say: what if the standard post-apocalyptic zombie infection film is just the /beginning/ of something? This film goes there.