Review of The Girl with All the Gifts (2016) by Dany L — 15 Jan 2017

Packed full of grisly ideas and genuine creepiness, The Girl with All the Gifts has a good hard go at breathing new life into a tired genre.

M.R Carey's smart screenplay, adapted from his novel of the same, is full of surprises and daring enough to do things a little differently. Unfortunately, this doesn't necessarily mean it does things right, best demonstrated by its requirement to have Glenn Close's frumpy scientist act as a walking encyclopaedia of exposition at all times.

Nevertheless, this ambitious zombie flick is seriously scary on several occasions and gleefully original throughout. The Girl with All the Gifts will never go down in history as a genre game-changer, but it's enough to prove there's still life in the old dog yet.