When I first heard about The Girl With All The Gifts, I was intrigued. It was getting rave reviews as a clever and thought-provoking take on the zombie apocalypse genre; once I saw it was heading to the big screen, I figured I would see if it deserved the hype.
It does. I say that with a lot of qualifications, however.
It is both clever and thought-provoking, a story that stands out in a genre
that can quickly devolve into mere gore. As far as a story that uses zombies as a
means to explore humanity in all its vagaries, it makes my list alongside
Jonathan Maberry’s Rot and Ruin series, Isaac Marion’s Warm Bodies, World War Z, and the
better seasons of The Walking Dead.
This will be two reviews in one, because the movie's altered presentation of the story changes it quite a bit, at least as I see it.
