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The Girl with All the Gifts
Directed by Colm McCarthy
In the future, a strange fungus has changed nearly everyone into thoughtless, flesh-eating monsters. When a scientist and a teacher find a girl who seems to be immune to the fungus, they all begin a journey to save humanity. From TMDB
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The Girl with All the Gifts is a 2016 action horror science fiction film, directed by Colm McCarthy, starring Sennia Nanua, Gemma Arterton and Paddy Considine.
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60 of 130 · most liked firstThis month is all about Black Final Girls in honor of #BlackHistoryMonth ✊🏽 linktr.ee/spectercinema • SCARY MOVIE 1 & 2 (@daddydisco.bsky.social) • 28 DAYS LATER (@thackerybinx86.bsky.social) • THE GIRL WITH ALL THE GIFTS (@garrettmcdowell.bsky.social) • RUN SWEETHEART RUN (@lovelyzena.bsky.social)
neutral · AI labelView post →Rewatching THE GIRL WITH ALL THE GIFTS for today's UCLA Black Horror class, The Sunken Place. It's paired with Night of the Living Dead and our short film, Danger Word (YouTube). Three zombie stories w/ Black leads! Sennia Nanua carries this film! A fantastic performance!
positive · AI labelView post →You may want to check out "The Girl With All the Gifts" - book or movie. ::: spoiler Spoiler for the big twist in The Girl With All the Gifts The Zombies turn out to be able to reason (whenever they don't smell prey) and are able to reproduce to sustain their own numbers. This turns the story into a humans vs neanderthals, or homo-sapiens vs homo-superior, kind of situation. :::
neutral · AI labelView post →When I think about my issues with the season 1 finale of The Last of Us I can’t help but compare it to the film adaptation of The Girl with All the Gifts dealt with the exact same question. Should you kill a child to “save humanity?”
neutral · AI labelView post →I just rewatched The Girl With All The Gifts and I think it is still my favorite zombie movie of all time. Now I gotta re-read the book because I remember it was different but I can’t remember how.
positive · AI labelView post →#Junesploitation Day 8 - Zombies! Today's movie is THE GIRL WITH ALL THE GIFTS (2016), another first-watch. (Pre-show trailers: Overlord, Blood Quantum) @fthismovie.bsky.social www.fthismovie.com/2026/05/anno...
neutral · AI labelView post →Glenn Close continues to absolutely kill it in every movie she’s in, I see. She was great in The Girl With All The Gifts, which is basically a zombie movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →I watched the Girl With All the Gifts again tonight. Such a good movie and take on the zombie idea. The book is better, but the movie did a good job I thought.
positive · AI labelView post →5. The Last of Us took its "Cordyceps" infection from a real genus of zombifying fungus: Ophiocordyceps, which zombifies ants (so did the film and novel, The Girl With All the Gifts). Ophiocordyceps compels ants to leave their nests and climb a plant, dying there so the fungus can spread its spores
neutral · AI labelView post →THE GIRL WITH ALL THE GIFTS (2016, Amazon, #film) A bloody fungus actioner about a strange child trying to understand a dying world. Glenn Close does the damn thing while Sennia Nanua and Gemma Arterton hold close behind. Too overlong for its ideas, but it's a solid effort with some neat art.
neutral · AI labelView post →Literally no one asked for underrated books or movies about zombie children getting studied in a facility but if you're interested, I'd wanna recommend The Girl With All The Gifts. Phenomenal book, great movie.
positive · AI labelView post →The Girl With All The Gifts, 2016. Dir. Colm McCarty. With a screenplay by Mike Carey based on his book this post apocalyptic film takes a different turn on the zombie genre with a cast that includes Gemma Arterton, Paddy Considine, and Glenn Close, and featuring a standout debut by Sennia Nanua 1/
neutral · AI labelView post →Watched The Girl with All the Gifts last night. Great film. Sennia Nanua holds her own against the likes of Glenn Close, Gemma Arterton and Paddy Considine. Bonus points for the scary run-right-at-you British zombies, not the wussy shambling American ones.
positive · AI labelView post →Gearing up for #horrorwatch by re-reading "The Girl With All the Gifts" by M.R. Carey. (Which has a really good movie adaptation that would be an appropriate #zombie feature for #horrorwatch at some point.)
neutral · AI labelView post →Share Your Favorite... Vampire Movie: Byzantium Zombie Movie: The Girl With All The Gifts Haunting Movie: Noroi Creature Feature: Ginger Snaps Found Footage: As Above, So Below Slasher: Black Christmas Cosmic Horror: The Void Psychological Horror: Silent House Horror Comedy: The Babysitter
positive · AI labelView post →Colm McCarthy's The Girl with All the Gifts (2016) is an absolute gem, an intelligent and thought-provoking zombie film that takes the stale and tired genre into new and more interesting territory. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/03/05/t...
positive · AI labelView post →The Girl with All the Gifts is my favorite zombie film to date. I prefer the original Day of the Dead, but the Snyder remake is a worthy entry.
positive · AI labelView post →The Girl With All The Gifts. Special mention also goes to Gemma Arteton's performance as teacher Helen Justineau. Quite a revelation to see her bring her acting skills to the fore in this film and by far the best I've seen from her. Her relationship to Melanie is honest and genuinely heartfelt.
neutral · AI labelView post →Cached UK/IE Kindle giveaway: 5 copies of M. R. Carey's THE GIRL WITH ALL THE GIFTS, which was made into an okay movie; it failed for me because I think it *needed* to be told from a first person point of view. It is, in its own way, a sweet story. #KindleBookGiveaway #UKKindleBookGiveaway
neutral · AI labelView post →The Girl With All The Gifts (GOAT zombie movie, in my opinion).
positive · AI labelView post →#TheGirlWithAllTheGifts was fantastic. Brilliant performances & character arcs. Sennia Nanua was an absolute standout as Melanie. I also enjoyed Dominique Tipper appearing bc I adore her lol 😸 TY @plotgewitter.bsky.social for suggesting it to me 💙 #Films #FilmSky #Movies #MovieSky #Zombies 🎬🎥📽🍿
positive · AI labelView post →Share a horror movie title that begins with the letter “G” 🎥 G is for… The Girl With All The Gifts
neutral · AI labelView post →The Girl with All the Gifts - M.R. Carey I watched the movie forever ago and loved it, and the book is even better. This is one of my favourite takes on the zombie apocalypse, and I always love a good dose of science fiction in my horror! 📚💙📚🩸
positive · AI labelView post →I very much enjoyed The Girl with All the Gifts as a film, so unsurprisingly enjoying it even more as a book. Nice take on the zombie genre! Overall, I've found that I enjoy (post-)apocalyptic stories set in the UK quite a bit more than US settings, for whatever reason.
positive · AI labelView post →#NowWatching 📽️💀 The Girl with All the Gifts (2016) #scifi #horror
neutral · AI labelView post →Yay, one of my favorite genres. In terms of the most bubble gum of it all (even if he actually does touch on some really awesome topics and concepts): Brandon Sanderson. We all lucked out that that man didn't get a job at Wizards of the Coast because he has made a career out of writing like twelve TTRPG fluff books per year and they are mostly all great. Basically all of his books heavily emphasize the Systems (magic) but the Cosmere books go above and beyond since the source of "magic" is…
neutral · AI labelView post →Share your fave: Vampire Film: Dracula: Pages of a Virgin's Diary Zombie Film: The Girl With All the Gifts Haunting Film: The Innocents Creature Feature: The Host Found Footage: Does Von Trier's The Kingdom count? Slasher: Candyman Cosmic Horror: Alien Psych Horror: Gaslight Horror Comedy: Gremlins
neutral · AI labelView post →The Girl With All the Gifts is an excellent movie. I saw it after reading the book years prior, and it was really great to see how they translated certain scenes to film. Definitely worth a watch. (And some movies on here for me to add to my list, too!)
positive · AI labelView post →Idk why this crossed my mind, probably tonight's lineup which is awesome, btw. Has the group ever watched "The Girl With All the Gifts"? Great book, pretty decent movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →I looked through all 98 comments (so far) hoping to see “The Girl with All the Gifts”. It’s my favorite zombie movie by far. The plot is fantastic, the first 20 minutes make me cry, and I end up rooting for the… let’s call it “change” to avoid giving away the plot.
positive · AI labelView post →I thought of another one, The Girl With All The Gifts. The movie is fine, but this worked more for me in the book format. I don't want to explain too much because that's part of the enjoyment, but it's from a unique perspective. Cordyceps type fungal zombies.
neutral · AI labelView post →Btw The Girl With All The Gifts is a really good book and I recommend it Ive never watched the movie but we will be watching it in the class Also I majorly ship Helen Justineau and Caroline Caldwell. They're so..they're so.
neutral · AI labelView post →Fantastic page turner. Think Matilda if it were set in a Zombie Apocalypse. I saw the movie first and loved it,not realizing it was based on this book. Having seen the film didn't spoil it for me though. I'd like to read more by the author. The Girl With All The Gifts - M.R. Carey #bookreview
neutral · AI labelView post →I haven't read much lately, but The Girl With All The Gifts got me back into reading or looking for new books to read. It was made into a movie, but the book is so much better.
neutral · AI labelView post →In addition to the game, The Last of Us, that's also the plot of the zombie book (and movie) The Girl with All the Gifts. Looks like both the game and the book came out at roughly the same time, so it's hard to tell who influenced who.
neutral · AI labelView post →We’re closing in on the end of #hqprideparty so for today’s prompt, check out a film with a significant “quiet” element. Silence in vital in key moments of THE GIRL WITH ALL THE GIFTS - an under seen gem that more folks need to check out
positive · AI labelView post →2016 was a bad year, for everyone, & an unfocused year for horror? big series entries kinda flopped to the finish, the biggest cinematic winner was Train to Busan which made horror international again, along with fellow zombie film The Girl With All The Gifts
neutral · AI labelView post →I'm celebrating WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH with a movie themed daily challenge - let's see 10 favorite female movie characters. Day 6: Melanie - The Girl With All the Gifts
neutral · AI labelView post →Let's give away a Kindle book! The first book I'll be giving away is The Girl With All the Gifts by M.R. Carey. To enter, just do the following: ☑️Follow me ☑️Repost this ☑️Comment with a book or movie you enjoyed recently Good luck everyone! Winner picked this weekend.
neutral · AI labelView post →#nowatching my #hooptober film 11/31 and zombie movie 3/5, The Girl With All The Gifts. Taking a pause from the Romero zombie films too see a British take on a post apocalyptic zombie world.
neutral · AI labelView post →I also wish to spoil the joke and mention that The Girl With All The Gifts is a UK film.
neutral · AI labelView post →if I had a genie that would only grant very silly and specific wishes it would be for fans of The Last of Us to read The Girl With All The Gifts and for fans of Annihilation to read Annihilation. For my second wish, a fan film of Authority made up of Archer (2009) edits.
neutral · AI labelView post →The Girl With All The Gifts is an excellent British zombie film with a twist
positive · AI labelView post →First thing I thought of was the zombie movie "The Girl With All The Gifts." The protagonist is a zombie girl. Also a beautiful eerie soundtrack. Based on a book but I haven't read it.
positive · AI labelView post →His THE GIRL WITH ALL THE GIFTS is another post-apocalypse novel that was made into a rather good film (scripted by Carey, IIRC) which, of course, nobody saw because we don't deserve nice things.
positive · AI labelView post →This class is giving me the impetus to finally watch the film version of The Girl With All The Gifts tho I really really love the book so I'm excited
positive · AI labelView post →This is The Girl With All The Gifts and The Boy On The Bridge. Pretty good books, okay film adaptation of the first one.
neutral · AI labelView post →3 very different sequels. I've been putting off Fright Bite because I'm terrified of zombies. Luckily I think I have aphantasia so might manage to get through it. I read The Girl With All The Gifts and completely dissociated it with zombies. I saw the trailer for the film and was 😱.
neutral · AI labelView post →That’s a great premise. It sounds like a good one.have you read The Girl with All the Gifts by M. R. Carey? It’s a movie too, but the book was better. (Isn’t it always? 😜) I also liked Feed by Mira Grant. And World War Z by Max Brooks. That one might actually be my favorite zombie book.
neutral · AI labelView post →The entire Blackwell Ghost series (there are like 8 of them) As Above So Below Host (2020) - takes place on zoom, was shot during the lockdown on zoom Cockneys vs Zombies The Girl With All the Gifts (highly recommend the book too) Slither Black Sheep (New Zealand film)
neutral · AI labelView post →The Girl with All the Gifts was one of the last films I studied in film school, man that one still sits with me.
positive · AI labelView post →Listened to the Girl With All the Gifts audiobook, thought the movie was a very decent adaptation.
positive · AI labelView post →The Girl with All the Gifts. Please tell me you've seen this movie? If not, you absolutely need to see this movie.
positive · AI labelView post →Nice! I still haven’t seen the film adaptation of “The Girl With All the Gifts,” but I absolutely adored the book. Recommended! (There aren’t many zombie-based novels I can say that about.)
neutral · AI labelView post →Currently watching the best zombie movie I've ever seen, "The Girl With All The Gifts". Unless they fuck it up with the ending this is already my favorite zombie movie.
positive · AI labelView post →THE GIRL WITH ALL THE GIFTS is the best zombie movie I've seen since TRAIN TO BUSAN, despite their wildly differing tones. GWAtG is a somber, ruminative piece on the inherent value of life. Train to Busan is pure action melodrama. Both are ♦♦♦♦♦
positive · AI labelView post →#31DaysofHorror Day 3 movie picks: -The Girl with All the Gifts -Quarantine
neutral · AI labelView post →Working on watching 1 horror/thriller film a day through October. Currently winging it, but very open to suggestions. Oct 1st: The Girl with All the Gifts(2016) Oct 2nd: Talk to Me(2022)
neutral · AI labelView post →2day I thought I wld share a fungal movie fm Don't Open That Door: A microbiologist's guide to infection in movies & TV The Girl with All the Gifts The science in this one makes me so happy, there was no way it could be excluded Don't Open That Door is due out late 2027 #Dontopenthatdoorbook
neutral · AI labelView post →📽️🍄🟫 The Girl with All the Gifts (2016) My rating 7/10 #filmsky #movies #film #hbo
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