The Girl with All the Gifts (2016) STORY + CORDYCEPS INFECTION Explained

The Girl with All the Gifts is a 2016 British post-apocalyptic zombie horror drama film directed by Colm McCarthy and written by M.R. Carey.
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[@filmcomicsexplained]

Hey guys! I also have a video on the Cordyceps infection featured in The Last of Us that you can checkout here - kzbin.info/www/bejne/q2O3datrftagmpY Enjoy! :)

[@cckd-vu3qk]

Noice

[@shanyewest8845]

FilmComicsExplained it basically seems like the last of us game but as a movie

[@Rageren]

Dude I have been waiting for sssssoooooo long for you to do a video on this... OH MY GOOODDDDDD!!!😆😆😆😆😆😆😆

[@skefsongames]

FilmComicsExplained why would she murder all of her friends i dont get it

[@skefsongames]

Doesnt this mean there are no humans left to eat so theyre all gonna starve. If its been 20 years since first infection how havent all of the zombies in london died of starvation if the kids require food to live then why dont they. Are the kids incapable of eating the tinned food they used as a trap? They obviously know what it is if they have the intelligence to know humans are going to want it. Cool premise but from what i saw there are alot of plot holes

[@lordtachanka3923]

“Jesus Christ I said suppressors..” The smartest quote I ever heard from a military personnel in any zombie movie EVER

[@YumeIsGone]

Ikr

[@snooble12]

Suppressors don’t silence a gun as much as it’s portrayed it will cut maybe a half or less of the sound

[@lordtachanka3923]

@@snooble12 Yeah that would be in real life but hey it's literally virtual logic in games or movies

[@reyesenigma7943]

@@snooble12 The hungries seemed very tone deaf, you noticed when they were shooting at them while in the hoarde, very few of them were reacting to the sound despite being so close.

[@lonerogue7800]

Suppressors are pointless on the L85s they have, whether it's an A1 or A2, you cant suppress either

[@J_C_CH]

Honestly, for a trained soldier, Kieran was pretty stupid to fall for that canned food trick. Its the same way a hunter will lure a squirrel into a trap with acorns and the like. I mean, did he not think it to be a little suspicious that there was a trail of food?

[@J_C_CH]

@bLackstar Because he let his conscience over killing children get the better of him, when they clearly had no qualms about murdering him.

[@drtish6960]

Evil Gopher All the soldiers in this movie were plain stupid.

[@DanielkaElliott]

people don't think rationally when they are starving, they try to conserve energy.

[@BillGates-bg1wz]

@@DanielkaElliott wrong

[@Echo_R21]

He was more stupid for dropping his gear before he went under that half opened gate. Foolish guy even stumbled upon x rated magazines.

[@mondaymotivator_]

Mom can we get the last of us? We have last of us at home Last of us at home:

[@number1skyrimfann]

Bill Wang IM DEAD

[@paco1022]

Bill Wang lol especially when she had to be sacrificed to be the cure

[@kenneth9343]

I don't get it.

[@connorbool6179]

@@kenneth9343 he's saying this movie is like a budget 'The last of us'

[@Bullshitvol2]

@@connorbool6179 I get what you are saying but of course it isn't about budget. I like the idea of the ending but sadly it is very badly written. It is very hard to have empathy with melanie. From the viewers perspective she switches sides instantly after seeing the feral children. The Visual Novel "Saya no Uta" has a very similar possible ending but portrays it a lot better.

[@KingFluffs]

It's quite dark how she keeps the woman as a pet in a box at the end.

[@whitephosphorus4255]

KingFluffs no she doesnt

[@ham7053]

Kinda like Schrodinger’s Cat...

[@Young05tech]

Not really a pet just more so just for her safety (in my own opinion)

[@KingFluffs]

@@whitephosphorus4255 She's kept in that mobile lab at the end though and can't leave because of the spores. At least that's what I took away from the film.

[@EmilyLucille523]

Just like Melanie was in the beginning

[@shshhdhshsshhdhshhs6507]

“Why should my kind die so yours can live?” *proceeds to seal the fate of humanity*

[@chaoslegacy4k038]

That's racist

[@funnyx8307]

@@chaoslegacy4k038 no its not

[@YumeIsGone]

@@chaoslegacy4k038 lmao r/youngpeopleyoutube

[@blondinerichelieujean9727]

Hey you shut up why should he risk his neck just for the life or a child, which is coincidentally black so shut up hypocrite

[@user-mq5mk4rl7c]

Blondine Richelieu Jean that’s the biggest pile of waffle I’ve ever read

[@sophieangel6676]

Of course adults would still make us go to school in an apocalypse 😂

[@rp338]

Even if you became a zombie!!

[@ldive]

Better to be educated than ignorant

[@coolsceegaming6178]

b o n e s well, you aren’t wrong.

[@booty_hunter4207]

Well, yeah of course they would because that's smart. What are you 11?

[@ant2901]

@@ldive yes because knowing advanced algebra is gonna help me in an apocalypse

[@vel5094]

"Heavily fortified camps" Zombies: *breaks through steel fence with no sweat*

[@tanaka6691]

You need a life

[@vel5094]

UwU yis

[@fakename2553]

You need a life

[@vidhansingh8670]

@@tanaka6691 OwO

[@spacedust3479]

@@tanaka6691 so do you

[@RichyCreations]

I legit thought this movie was a girl getting and stealing all the gifts but no

[@wowgaming_lul716]

Oh thank god I'm not the only one

[@soukkhanhsila134]

Lol.

[@asiantone7153]

Lmao

[@gooi3496]

Bruh is that a wattson pfp

[@pheniellanz5271]

this could be a meme lol

[@williamhorton2643]

I never understood the hostility towards the girl, until right at the end of the movie

[@Speleomimus]

"next step in human evolution" looks like a step backwards in almost every possible way aside from mildly enhanced survivability.

[@Shaboops]

Evolution doesn't always denote improvement.

[@arnowisp6244]

@@Shaboops But it mostly does at least relative to the environment making the animal best suited for it. Of course such specialization on only a very specific environment has some very obvious cons.

[@turidrowned]

Mildly enhanced? Going from not being able to go outside without highly advanced weaponry and breathing apparatus, to having free range to the whole world is a lot more that "mildly"

[@clover4522]

Turi Drowned So basically being a normal human being able to breathe normally? Wow what an improvement lmao

[@iplaygames896]

Howlin' Matt everything humanity did is gone now this was just a big time waste let’s spend another few thousand years trying to get back our old Nokia’s instead of colonising space......sigh

[@goransvraka3171]

Because of her empathy now that teacher is stuck in a prison she created for herself. This is why you never base your decisions upon emotions.

[@elitegamer9310]

It's worse than that. Helen basically allowed that "kid" to destroy whatever was left of humanity. She is pretty much the last human, captive in a prison she made, with no hope, for herself or humanity. And for what? Because Melanie was a kid? There is no hope, not even a chance that her and the neonites could rebuild civilization. If they did, it be akin to the stone age. Melanie is the only smart one and the others are mentally unstable and are more animal than human. What was her reason again? Neonites are just as entitled to the earth as humans? What part of that made her think it was ok to commit genocide?

[@tangierh.4581]

Elite gamer melani was once like that too but then they got taught,if she teaches them,they will grow up and be smart like her

[@elitegamer9310]

@@tangierh.4581 No, they won't. Melanie and her class were raised by the survivors. The neonites they met in the city are feral, they weren't raised. You ever hear stories about kids getting lost in the woods for years? They don't recover. And besides even if they are successful, it is unlikely they will rebuild civilization, there are only about a dozen of them and they are just kids. Civilization won't come back for hundreds of years.

[@cultofeorzea]

You should certainly base decisions on emotions in certain circumstances. This is why you balance emotion and logic when making decisions.

[@flowerchild7027]

"This is your heart, and you should never let it rule your head." -Sherlock Holmes, BBC's 'Sherlock'

[@dslacie25]

my elementary school friend was an extra on this movie lmao. she had to shave her hair for it, it was so cool

[@PetrolSniffer6969]

What scene was she in?

[@theeblogss_2164]

If she was an extra they could have put a bald cap on her or something it's pretty dumb to cut your hair as an extra

[@dslacie25]

MysteryZ idk maybe the kids scene, i didn’t really ask bc i was in elementary at the time

[@dslacie25]

jelly samuria ig, i think it was so it was more realistic

[@aidanpizzarro6476]

They played the shit outta her ☠️☠️☠️ shaved her head to be an extra???

[@zaberfang]

Moral lesson: Being humane and empathic to monsters doesn't always reward. 😂😂😂

[@sailorarwen6101]

zaberfang that’s been proven in nature many times

[@MannoMax]

Lead's the only cure-all

[@ColdNorth0628]

Thats why big stick diplomacy exists.

[@somethingmundanethen]

Technically her reward was not being killed

[@zaberfang]

@@somethingmundanethen By the look at the Film's end, she's not really happy about it. 😂😂😂

[@aniusers]

So, the moral of the story is to *have proper hygiene and sanitation.* To ensure the death of fungi, bacteria and viruses.

[@lagawregenecemagahusagay7492]

LOL hahahaha

[@Kapangdazz]

also cannibal mutants arent people, and if a woman awakens to her maternal instinct on one just shoot them both. better safe than extinct.

[@MickeyGillilan]

this aged well 😂😂

[@JRFishing95]

1 YEAR LATER

[@Nonchalantlyfabulous]

Currently reading this during the COVID-19 outbreak like 😭😭😭

[@minus6585]

"Sacrifice one kid to save the world" Hmm sounds familiar

[@vedant8633]

NAME what is it similar to? It sounds familiar but I can’t remember.

[@josebarraza4205]

Vedant Mistry the last of us when Ellie was going to be experimented on and killed in the process to make a cure that would work

[@YumeIsGone]

@@josebarraza4205 that was used in tlou 2

[@YumeIsGone]

@@josebarraza4205 but joel saved her

[@fearanarchy]

The faltering in the chainmof command is handled by firearms. If you are listening to an unarmed teacher who is having you question SA-VING HUMANITY... no... sorry, humanity is not always virtue, it is survival. We won the lottery many times, why stop?

[@AsmitaAdari]

This is a perfect example of why you shouldn’t let your personal emotions override situations that affect others.

[@johnrandolph1989]

The movie should've been titled as The Last of Us U.K.

[@chancepaladin]

Doomsday 2! :D

[@yaldabaoth2]

The Last of Uk

[@liape3699]

Maybe there is some sort of connection between the universes, like the girl with all the gifts is what happened in the uk during the story of the last of us?

[@jacksonwells2902]

Except the ending to the last of us was actually good.

[@oceanbacon3899]

Snapp-A Tango Not sure where or who confirmed but i heard the virus is the same as in the last of us

[@ReverendSyn]

Idealism and emotion can prove to have just as devastating an end result as outright warfare.

[@demetriusean]

@Caleb Huskey If you are seriously saying shit like that, then you clearly didn't understand OP's comment

[@dhsshsj6401]

I pose a question, how does a baby who apparently ate they’re way out of their mother survive alone, also how do they eat their way out in the first place without teeth or developed muscles

[@marcusmartin5758]

Answer: movie logic, you're welcome.

[@bannedmann4469]

Bad writing.

[@hxneybeeceoofroseschannel1670]

@@bannedmann4469 The books go into more detail about it.

[@youtubestudiosucks978]

How did they even know that those babies were half zombie and not just regular babies that became zombies?

[@Fulcrox]

@@youtubestudiosucks978 regular babies don't have teeth nor bloody mouths

[@sarenemun4817]

Oh my god. Melanie is Pandora. By burning the tree, she releases all bad and evil. And at the bottom of the box, the end of the movie, she shows Hannah to the children. Hannah is hope. Melanie is not trying to save humanity, but her own kind. It's just that she also loves Hannah very much; she also needs Hannah to teach the other kids.

[@airgod418]

Except now they don’t have any humans and she killed a entire race but feels entitled to life when her race took away our whole civilization not peacefuly I may add by KILLING everyone to do so except one that they literally keep as a pet when it comes to living conditions

[@goose7215]

How is hannah hope? The whole point of hope was to bring hope to humanity... not the evil... so how is hannah hope, when shes most likely the only human left?

[@reyesenigma7943]

We should also consider these spores are going to kill off the animals / most of the animals, considering their DNA are similar to ours, the hungries are going to end up starving to death and dying. Unless they eat maggots or other insects.

[@r6lazy_boi690]

Sounds about how the whites did the Indians 💯✌🏿

[@deprofundis3293]

Don't you mean Helen?

[@kaidensmith2670]

The Last of Us portrays this fungal infection much better.

[@aniusers]

Yeah, at the least, people from The Last of Us aren't so dumb that they get wiped out by a tiny ass fungus and their mind-controlled subspecies.

[@kaidensmith2670]

Austin C. That’s why The Last of Us does it better

[@pedrocorujotorres8890]

Aren't u supposed to be sending people to the gulag

[@kaidensmith2670]

Pedro Corujo Torres I mean I could be but I’d like to keep researching diseases so I can get rid of the last of the Nazis without upsetting the UN.

[@NoCumBacksiFunny]

The last of us is a trash game

[@po801_4]

I knew I wasn't the only one who got Last of Us vibes.

[@justinhunt5464]

PO801 _You weren't

[@DavidOrtega-ed9ip]

PO801 _ same virus and time period

[@trod146]

Because last of us clearly and obviously took their entire premise from the book.. It's impossible not to realize that after finding out there was a novel about this and the story of it that last of us more or less copied the book like this film did. Two interpretations of the same source material, two stories that share mostly the same plot. It's like two people literally took the book and one made a movie and one made a game from it.

[@ajh5265]

Timothy Rodowicz pretty sure The Last of Us came out before the book and movie Edit: The Last of Us released in 2013, The Girl with All the Gifts(Book) published in 2014 and the movie released in 2016.

[@theoneandonlydarkgaming3416]

Maybe same timeline but diffrent place of the earth

[@slapman7646]

That young girls acting ability was amazing.

[@rntdarealist7934]

Horrible 🤮

[@madmonkey432]

RNT DaRealist It’s a fucking child what do you except I thought it was actually good

[@jetfraser.]

RNT DaRealist facts she was trash

[@IzayFrmMars100]

@@rntdarealist7934 youre tripping

[@IzayFrmMars100]

@@jetfraser. no

[@AquaStockYT]

The fact that the suppressed guns sound the most like actual suppressed firearms pleases me. I shall watch.

[@the_furry_inside_your_walls639]

Yes, and it's also stupid that they were using supressed firearms against zombies that reacted to man-made noises. Did they forget the reason why supressors were made in the first place or what?

[@jdperfect4565]

GamezForFunz guns are firearms

[@firstnamelastname-rf8lt]

@@jdperfect4565 fire arms are arms made of fire

[@shadeegacha7460]

@@firstnamelastname-rf8lt I don't know if this is a joke or not But seriously I'm so upset by this because it's SO WRONG.

[@firstnamelastname-rf8lt]

@@shadeegacha7460 joke

[@turtato2155]

"Just as entitled as humans" Proceeds to end all humans

[@palebluedot7435]

Yes... They are both entitled to genocide. To survive

[@QuestionQuestionMark]

I would think the heat caused by the fire would actually kill the spores not set them free?

[@Fourtytwo4242]

That would be a funny ass twist.

[@agonleed3841]

Many would die, but not all. And a lot would float away. The heat popped the sacs. And the plants whole purpose is to do that when damaged...for its own survival. So...the heat, popped sacs...spores

[@ianperry8557]

Agon Leed not plants, fungus.

[@JohnDickinson]

There are several pine trees that require a forest fire to germinate.

[@ldive]

Wish tht happened instead :-(

[@arstolotle]

Melanie is at least 11 they still haven’t found a cure after over a decade

[@zeusplays1196]

Makes sense to me 😂😂😂

[@Hilders.]

It took 15 years to find a cure for the Spanish flu I think

[@sogyn2239]

Honestly, the cordyceps in Last of Us is portrayed better

[@boreragnarok249]

Exactly the clickers and the bloater were done perfectly

[@coolsceegaming6178]

There is another one, I think it’s name is the Hunter.

[@icatchalleys6734]

@@coolsceegaming6178 stalker

[@coolsceegaming6178]

Icatchalleys thank you for correcting me.

[@Lllllllllllillllillli]

Much much better

[@zionleach9335]

So there's only 1 human left boo.

[@dax2036]

Zion Leach I wouldn’t say last one it like In sw so we’re Luke was the last jedi but the was Asoka and A few others

[@Ed-tg2sp]

Dax Star na man asoka died before episode IV

[@liizzset]

I think it is kinda sad. Yet intriguing.

[@finnishwehraboo8377]

Dax Star that lil boi at the end is going to be a jedi i bet

[@PongoXBongo]

Humanity, as it was before the outbreak, was inferior. The fittest survived.

[@UWU-x]

Could you do the virus from train to busan? I’m not sure if there’s much information on it but I would love for you to analyze the movie.

[@maxwellethoxian4085]

Dirty The Jamitty it's a rabid based infection

[@GoEatSoyEgg]

Dirty The Jamitty That's my favorite zombie movie ever

[@user-me4ie4hc6m]

Is it weird that the virus in world war Z started in Korea and the zombies in train to busan is like the zombies in WWZ Including the speed and strength (and the virus infects the host faster like the one in wwz)

[@Pantsinabucket]

Glitch Alajar the virus in World War Z starts in China in the book and NYC in the movie, and in the book the zombies are extremely slow unlike train to busan

[@scottsthots6880]

Dirty The Jamitty great movie

[@yeetboi6042]

During the zombie apocalypse: Parents: “go to school”

[@lahtine7431]

"how can bullets be soft" Nerf darts: am i a joke to you?

[@jalapeno1216]

This comments underrated XD

[@tinykid0x]

He needs more likes

[@caseyeriksen2345]

CALLED DARTS. DARRRrRrRrrRTS idk, it’s just a joke ;)

[@The_Daily_Tomato]

Yeah sorry, if humanity is at stake few kids is a small price to pay.

[@cassandrabelyeu2419]

Humanity was basically extinct, and the kids were flourishing all over. To save the dominant sentient species of Earth, the death of the few is a sad, but relatively small, price. Neonity was at stake.

[@The_Daily_Tomato]

Still does not change my view. I'll do everything i can to make humanity live another day. This is our planet and i'd like to keep it that way :)

[@cassandrabelyeu2419]

Uh. Even if someone else was already living here and you'd have to kill more than you'd save?

[@The_Daily_Tomato]

Preferably i'd like to use the we can both live in harmony tactic but if the other group was actively trying to destroy us and everything we worked so hard for? Then you give me no choice.

[@cassandrabelyeu2419]

Sure, a few children were feral and acted like feral/savage children. But the little girl was so in favor of taking care of the humans that she was initially willing to consent to vivisection. If the humans had wanted to live in harmony and value neonite lives, it would have been easy, since neonites valued the adults who raised them. Trying to destroy them and everything they'd worked for? Not even a good survival tactic.

[@LichtdesMorgens]

I really disliked the film. I think Melanie should not have taken it in her own hands to kill all of humankind. The survivors only tried to survive, not to experminate all of the hungries, they tried to find a cure or vaccine. Maybe if Melanie wanted to, she could have created a world in which the intelligent kids and the survivors could live alongsinde each other. But istead she chose to be selfish and killed all humans, except the one she liked.

[@seinakimura4201]

The whole point of the film/book is how Melanie changes.... many should've known that there wasn't going to be a happy ending. I knew it wasn't going to happen, but I still read the book and watched the film. Usually most zombie movies don't have a good ending.

[@SkullCrusher-xk5wp]

You have to understand that they were going to die anyway. Remember near the end of the film, that base they heading to had been overrun? There was no vaccine in the works. Humanity was going to die out sooner or later, what she did was mercy. Also she didn't save the one human she liked. She was trying to save all of them. The soldier guy went out looking for her and that's what caused him to turn, otherwise, he would've stayed human.

[@rachelradford1498]

I've only read the book and the prequel and haven't seen the movie, but it made sense to me for it to end how it did. Melanie knew that the deaths of the children like her was the cure, and she also knew that the children like her were only learning violence from the humans who were hunting them. The children needed the chance to live, and the only way to do that was by ending the humans who sought to destroy them. It's expanded on more in the prequel, The Boy On The Bridge. Worth a read, clears a lot of stuff up. Also, in the books, the babies are born normally and don't chew their way out - that's a weird thing to change! And in the epilogue of the boy on the bridge, you find out what happens to Melanie and Helen and the human survivors 20 years in the future. The humans aren't the good guys in these books

[@SeedlingNL]

That spore tree was just one of many, and it would have spread it's spores eventually. Lighting would strike, fires would spread near it, etc. A cure might have saved the few humans remaining, but a better solution would have been to find a way to be infected while retaining your sentience, similar to the children, or failing that, ensure that the combined knowledge of mankind was passed on to the neonates.

[@dsandoval9396]

Yeah, I found the ending to be full of malice. Towards the end the girl asked the doctor (Glenn) something to the effect of if they (the infected) are human and the doc finally says yes, then the girl asks "then why should it be you instead of me (us) that live", and then the girl walks out and the doctors reasoning defeated... REALLY!? Like the doctor couldn't have said "we don't go into an automatic killing rage when there's a living being close by"? "We don't rip the flesh off of a living being when we eat"? No "we don't act like a mindless killing machine and after we've fed we don't come back mentally to our fully conscious selves"!? Are you fucking kidding me!?!? But none of that matters because at the very end, the final scene, maybe it's just me but the final shot of the little girls face was kind of demonic. Like as if this was her ultimate plan since the beginning. She might have been going through the situation as they were happening like the rest of the he group but but she knew full well what her end game was which was the fulfillment of the story she read to her teacher in the classroom under the bunker. The end shot of her just seemed like a very calculating, cold, killer. As if the only emotion she shows is completely mimed, because she wants us to think that's what she felt.

[@void-creature]

A young girl immune to the cordiceps fungi being escorted through infested territory, with the question of saving her, or saving humanity..... this seems a bit familiar....

[@RedMoonsEcho]

Yeah someone like naughty either the book copied naughty dogs last of us game OR naughty dog plagiarized this throaty because they are far to similar to each other

[@gergopiroska5749]

@@RedMoonsEcho the book ripped off the game The game came first

[@somethingofascientist58]

and the fact that its 20 years later too

[@dontlookatmyprofilepic1241]

Im still amaze how they never though about getting one of the savage kids towards the end as a test subject.... was melanie the only subject to test on??

[@Nimbus3690]

That's not a risk a team of two soldiers and two civilians in an unprotected shelter can afford to take anymore

[@deprofundis3293]

In the book, the doctor does exactly that - capture and cut open a savage kid. But there is much less emphasis on the possibility of a vaccine in the book...it turns out to be impossible anyway, but the doctor dies happy that she figured out how the kids were different. The book differs in many ways and I highly recommend it!

[@joseangelleon6692]

@@Nimbus3690 Coudnt melanie bring one back with an animal And trap him

[@laurawalsh2829]

Don't Look at My Profile Pic: Having seen the film, I got the impression the doctor saw something more in Melanie; she didn't react like the others when the officer first shows Helen (and us) what happens when his scent is picked up by the other students in class. Later in the lab near the film's end, the doctor learns why -- the girl held her breath long enough to not be affected (why she's counting in the film's beginning) plus, the fungus metabolizes her oxygen. It makes sense: shortly after the officer's demonstration when Helen visits Melanie later in her cell, Melanie can smell her and is fighting the urge to attack and warns Helen, before she reverts to her hungry state.

[@micealcurphey753]

In the book it’s explained that she has the highest amount of spore count and the highest iq at the same time

[@upwiggins]

The one thing people have to realize is that we don't have to worry about a fungus taking over our brain because the fungus would have to be just as complex as our brains to take them over that is why you only see insects get tooken over by such fungus

[@cassandrabelyeu2419]

Yeah. Like if the fungus was so good at faking being a normal child that under 24/7 supervision you can't tell the child is not sentient-that's a sentient fungus. That fungus is a person who can be taught genocide or to value life. If they hadn't beaten it into her head that there can only be one sentient species on Earth, she would not have thought genocide was the right response. It's not even relevant whether she's a sentient fungus or a human. She did what they were doing, only to save the majority, instead of the tiny human minority. The greatest good for the greatest number.

[@igoronline]

Riight, it's not like toxo and rabies don't invade and commandeer our CNS already... what could a life-form that's already able to beat modern processors at pathing optimization problems ever do to us ?? What I'm saying is, you should ditch your holy book of choice and start praying for mercy right away. I hear they like decomposing organic matter.

[@xixxaxxorux5750]

holy shit do i have news for you

[@MG-ti9bl]

@@igoronline Viruses mutate much faster and with more freedom. David is right, we don't need to worry about this.

[@percivalconcord9209]

@@cassandrabelyeu2419 Isn't it implied that the infection hasn't spread globally so they're technically only the majority in the UK or Europe. Plus there isn't much a majority to be said with adult infected practically having no higher brain function and the current generation of infected being created under a specific outcome which means the next few are probably gonna deal with a limited gene pool.

[@regiman222]

She was a gift to humanity, provided you remember the German for poison is gift.

[@FutureDeep]

But the Germans never tried to anything bad to the Britsh. Ohhh.

[@FutureDeep]

You didn't get the joke. But that's okay.

[@agentcoxack7368]

Ah the power of entitlement. Pretty sure she wouldn’t have declared herself queen of the new age if someone had a gun pointed at her. Honestly though this movie fails to make me pity the infected. I mean, they’re zombies. Think of all the poor innocent people they slaughtered brutally. Edit: Had no idea this would spark some sort of neo-philosophical debate, but I’ll throw another chunk in there to think about. If Cancer suddenly gained sentience, would you forgive it?

[@MachineMan-mj4gj]

The whole point of zombies is to provide a human shaped monster you don't feel guilty about killing.

[@WobblesandBean]

I think it's meant to be an allegory. Humans tend to kill anyone they deem as "different", and often commit genocide. But when the shoe is on the other foot, the previous victims are all too happy to retaliate with the same brutality, showing that neither group was ever above the other and we're all equal, if only as far as how vicious we can be. Just look at the Israel Palestine conflict. Israel is doing unspeakable horrors to Innocents after having trounced the Palestine forces. They're not defending themselves, they're trying to eradicate every last Palestinian on earth.

[@seecanon5840]

And ate. The uninfected are considered cattle. Interesting concept.

[@nidhalsormali3051]

Not like they wanted to..

[@Nimbus3690]

It's not really like that at this point. It's just nature running its course. It's not about slaughtering innocents. They fed on the humans they killed, just like humans fed on other species to survive themselves. Like Melanie says, "it's not over, it's just not yours anymore"

[@joeman123964]

let's be honest here, there are SO MANY ways to kill characters....WHY make a dude leave his weapon and comunications? then eat food and walk around willy nilly? i mean he deserved to be eaten by the children, and the punk ass didnt even have the dignity to off himself with the grenade. if those were the survivors, then the world was doomed before the movie even started

[@roycutwright5465]

I agree

[@arstolotle]

Yea but I feel like he knew that if he set it off it would wake up the hugaries and the others were in the area. He was gonna die anyways

[@jasdanvm3845]

He didn't wanted to kill the children, he just didn't had it in him.

[@JackDManheim]

In addition to all of the harmful things in Pandora's box, it also held 'Hope'; introducing it to the world upon being opened along with all of the horrors previously contained.

[@Lynn-vn8fs]

Why did you type this in poem format dude

[@PongoXBongo]

The neonites were the hope.

[@dementedvulture2502]

@@PongoXBongo they killed the remaining humans they killed the world they're the villans

[@VeioXed]

@@PongoXBongo actually the hope was helen. helen constantly believed in the neonites and just like hope in pandora's box it is the last thing remaining after all the destruction helen remains after all else dies.

[@oliversmithey3006]

JackDManheim I

[@AnemoneLost]

This story had so much potential. The major drawback to me was overly empathetic, bleeding heart of Helen. Her protesting the sacrifice of a few versus the guranteed extinction of the human race is ridiculous. This would be on par with someone refusing to dissect a captured ape with the hopes of finding a cure in the Planet of thd Apes universe.

[@metachronicler]

AnemoneLost Thank you. I wish one of these movies would just killed the Helen character I don't even blame the neonites. Wanting to live is beyond almost all other moral or ethical concerns. But people like Helen are so utterly useless in these scenarios, for her, her ego was more important than everyone else.

[@annabellee6791]

Just like Joel in the Last of us

[@AnemoneLost]

Annabel Lee I'd argue that Joel kept Ellie alive for purely selfish reasons. Joel also has character building that shows his conflict of giving her over and keeping her. We miss almost all of Helen's development to the point of not sacrifing the kids. Also Joel faces actual resistance and people trying to kill him for Ellie. Everyone essentially goes, "Oh Helen! Guess you're right and I won't use this automatic rifle I've been carrying around since my family became infected and tried to eat me to convince you that these children are a expendable cures".

[@tf2junky476]

Annabel Lee well he had grown close to ellie. I think he had grown to love her like he did Sarah

[@annabellee6791]

It's just fiction guys

[@daemonblackfyre3238]

Did anyone else pick up the fact that the soldier guy she mercy killed at the end could possibly be her father? The doctor told her how soldiers found the babies while out patrolling. The soldier while he was being infected at the end told her he went looking for his pregnant wife. "She was as big as a house." He went to find his wife and came back with babies.

[@iaminhere6022]

The whole time i just thougth "can they just shoot them already and live it out?"

[@ilhandaanish2381]

Honestly yeah. Like if the humans became self sufficient and created a safe perimeter where the infected can’t smell them they’d be safe and the zombies would probably die out. Also don’t they move by smell? Can’t they make something that helps to camouflage them from the zombies if they ever need to find food in the city

[@yoholup19]

@@ilhandaanish2381 there is where your logic is flawed food and supplies is limited once you are out you are out you could try planting crops but the issue is the virus could still infect them And technically not while the bodies are decomposing the virus is still out and it will keep evolving while we humans are slowly dying out

[@jerrycarmody6717]

Couldn't the humans survive if they used gasmasks or had an underground base with air filter

[@Monitice]

Very plausible, however it depends how the spores interact with the human body. Not all spores need to be taken in from the lungs to infect you.

[@hypnos2041]

In the book it said that the fungus infects one through blood and bodily fluids I think

[@Monitice]

@@hypnos2041 An hazmat suit would've been fine then, lol.

[@aniusers]

@@Monitice No hazmats were noticed upon the making of the movie lmao.

[@luc1ddr34mz]

@Arthur Gamaghelkov nO tHANkS

[@davidgutierrez8297]

Lesson of the story, sympathizing with your enemy only leaves you open for betrayal. Helen as a survivor was too naive to empathize with the children. She should have surely witnessed what the infected could do. I don't see her as being able to have survived in the first place. It should be clear to everyone that the fungus was the one truly in control. It only allowed her to act human when it was dormant. As a species the fungus would have a much greater chance of survival by making a symbiotic relationship with infected species (the kids). If it had not then it's food supply (carrier) would be limited and it would starve eventually. Symbiotic relationship allows it to exist while allowing the host to make offspring to continue the infection. I think the fungus would psychologically modify the host in order to best suit it's continued survival. I think the doctor was right and it was all mimicry, but no one detected it because the most believable lies are those the liar themselves believe. Notice how the feral kids didn't just suddenly catch the scent of human and go crazy, but instead actively hunted them from a distance with traps and plans. That means they were completely aware of the need to kill and eat humans with presumably no prior human contact, that's instinct given to them by the fungus. As for the kids at the base due to their controlled environment were able to hold back the instinct and let it lay dormant due to inaction. The virus then switched the mentality from hunting to learning which is more human like. This gave it greater knowledge and could benefit it later. When the girl saw the spore spire and learned of its purpose it could be considered the virus becoming self aware of it's purpose. When she meets the other half breeds they can detect she isn't human quickly which is also likely thanks to instinct. She sympathizes with them because instinct tells her she should and pacifies the soldiers because instinct tells her it's her species greatest chance at survival. Now that she (the fungus) has gained self awareness thanks to human knowledge she cannot allow the humans to continue their plan of making a vaccine. Doing so goes against the funguses greater goal and is in direct violation if her instinct. The virus decides that the humans are now a great risk without a substantial reward and decides to end them. It then goes on towards the spire driven by instinct to set it off and finish the job. However, it knows human knowledge can still benefit it's survival so it keeps the sympathizer Helen alive to pass down that knowledge. Without the necessary intelligence or a male to breed with, Helen is the end of her species and poses no threat so she can be left alive, for now.

[@JPQuartered]

david gutierrez 🕘 I spent 20 mins reading this

[@davidgutierrez8297]

@@JPQuartered Good

[@v.weaver1510]

@@JPQuartered lmao XD

[@TheDragonfirelight]

Interesting take, but in the end all children are mimics

[@daynabailen4331]

The point of the story was that the doctor was wrong and that the children actually were psychologically human. The adult humans were the bad guys in the story.

[@justaroach5633]

Ngl I thought this movie was going to be a disabled girl who was extremely smart but gets bullied in school... 💀

[@lolgamingcolective]

Yo same lol

[@chouavue9056]

Morale of the story: You kill your enemies not because you want too, but because you must.

[@spongmongler6760]

no, it's want to, there was nothing forcing her to commit genocide, she just did it to do it

[@tthsgun]

⁠@@spongmongler6760we dont need to eat, we just do because we wanna live🤓🤓🤓

[@emmyloiselle9639]

I fell in love with the book, and when I saw the movie, I was so happy. As you said, the girl they casted for Melanie was incredibly good. I really don't like zombie movies, but this one I loved.

[@BrutalBa5sMixedBag]

Ignoring the fact that the girl in the book was a blonde haired white girl?

[@PaddyInf]

BrutalBa5sMixedBag It's like they reversed the roles - the teacher was black in the book.

[@ferrett3950]

Emmy Loiselle well technically they’re parasite infected hosts

[@mreshadow]

BrutalBa5sMixedBag I guess that means that they can change races of characters and still produce something excellent?

[@vladimiradidas1945]

mreshadow race doesn't really make a movie good, its the characters and the writing makes the movie good. Its whats wrong with today's society(sorry for sounding like an angry grandpa), people keep bringing race and politics into EVERYTHING and ruins the whole experience know something is either loved or hated for all the wrong reasons. Look at Black Panther and Wonder Woman for example: BP was a decent movie but people love it just because of the black cast and thus, was overhyped for being something it wasn't. Meanwhile, WW got massive hate for being "feminist propaganda" and all that kinda crap. Tl;dr politics really does ruin films, shows,anime, etc. And it shouldn't be abused for stupid reasons.

[@Codeman22]

The ending of the movie made me completely regret even watching it at all.

[@Otgel]

melonie having an aggresively british accent the whole movie cracked me up

[@gman3664]

Last of us- *Incompetent edition*

[@Guyfromfakeland]

even though the last of us was based on the theory..... and the book came out long before the game....

[@archemides1517]

​@@Guyfromfakeland no the book came out January 14 2014 the game came out June 14 2013

[@thatoneguy78938]

@@Guyfromfakeland game was in development confirmed to be at least during or before 2011 as stated by Nolan North. He voiced David in the last of us. This was also taking place alongside Uncharted 3's development.

[@axeld2150]

Last of us 2?

[@RedMoonsEcho]

Idiots just because something was being work on before or after one thing doesn’t mean they didn’t steal the idea. A developing game means just that nobody even knew in 2011 what the game was about. And it takes time to write a book so if you did you investigating how long was the author working on the book. Because this idea or theory is way to similar to one another to be coincidence. Use your all’s damned brains.

[@athousandturtlesthattellta1599]

How can it be that in 50% of all movies with a deadly virus, the virus originates in the UK?

[@TheJigma]

Alexander Pade ʙᴇᴄᴀᴜsᴇ ᴢᴏᴍʙɪᴇs ʜᴀᴛᴇ ᴍʏ ᴄᴏᴜɴᴛʀʏ.

[@Alex-li5wg]

ᴇʟ ᴄʀᴀᴢʏ ᴄᴀᴛᴢ it's actually because of the sesh heads

[@mmmc5122]

The English like zombies?😷😵😖

[@TheJigma]

M Mmc ᴛʜᴇʏ ᴛʀʏ ᴛᴏ sᴛᴇᴀʟ ᴏᴜʀ ғɪsʜ ᴀɴᴅ ᴄʜɪᴘs xᴅ

[@chancepaladin]

because doing a zombie movie in africa is RACIST!

[@kmw4040]

So this movie is basically The Last of Us but worse?

[@daynabailen4331]

KEN SAI the film isn’t great but the book is my favorite book of all time. I have read it like 4 times.

[@ernestocortez5820]

No clickers tho

[@buddawashington5631]

Yeps

[@AlldaylongRock]

Looks like they have a few Ellies tho

[@buddawashington5631]

@@AlldaylongRock right

[@somedude9076]

KZbin sure is recommending me alot of virus and apocalypse vids recently in this lockdown

[@steel749]

Damn what a stupid ending. I'm really glad this channel watches these movies so I dont have to waste me time on em Haha

[@m.s.e.advanced2842]

With all these uses of cordyceps in horror it makes you wonder why we're not concerned about it

[@imobmo6165]

M.S.E. Advanced i feel you on that

[@chancepaladin]

"our brains are far more complex" *people in ninja masks running around calling everyone nazis and screeching like idiots because people disagree with them*

[@Lorenzo_631]

Chance Paladin thats pretty much what both sides do.

[@entropino9928]

There are so many things to be concerned about there are death rays in space moving at the speed of light, that could hit us at any time.

[@danshiba1498]

M.S.E. Advanced Its very rare for a fungal infection like cordyceps to jump such a large gap in species also seeing as it isnt found near human settlements so chances of adaptation to humans is very low(but not impossible)

[@CrimsonGuard1992]

I was never sympathetic to the infected children for some reason. I always saw them as monsters from beginning to end.

[@septemberlynne1578]

Cautionary tale we won’t listen to, I’m afraid.

[@Justinxoxo]

Robert Wilson Helen wasn’t a good fit for her role of teaching the neonates or maybe she was? Maybe they needed a naive instructor to teach these hybrids to have a better depth of whether or not the fungi was displaying mimicry

[@thecoolcarhd4402]

Now look they just ruined humanity chances of surviving,Such a shame that the woman was soo empathetic to that "Kid"

[@johnvuu4679]

Interesting, one thing the neonites lacked was empathy but was this because of how they were raised? Is it even possible to raise a neonite as if it were a normal human so that the kid could get proper social skills?

[@yoholup19]

@@johnvuu4679 it is possible yes it's the same with a dog and a cat you can train it Just about anything can be trained as long as it has a learning piece of the brain Neonites are just children who were infected but remain sentient so they can still learn like normal human children

[@fotoschopro1230]

Yeah, this is what happens if you hire vegans to produce a movie.

[@DekkarJr]

lmao. :D VEGAN POCALYPSE :D WE BECOME SPORE PEOPLE AND START EATING MEAT! CEPT IT'S ONLY HOOOMANS!

[@homericrhapsode3126]

@@DekkarJrexcept they did eat animals in the movie

[@danialhalal]

@@DekkarJr I don't think anyone wants to live in that world

[@BillGates-bg1wz]

@@homericrhapsode3126 thanks captain obvious

[@littlebigcubing6062]

😂🤣😂🤣

[@antoniobrown3219]

Stumbled across this flick completely by accident and WOW what a find! I was truly impressed by this Indi-Film! 👏🏾

[@nicholaswolff2181]

>says its not about zombies >eat flesh despite the fact the fungus wouldnt need that to survive as long as its spores were able to spread LIKE IN NATURE

[@SuperCrazyEstonian]

I liked it, but what a BS ending. It was fun for at least half of the film.

[@filmcomicsexplained]

look I was also angry that it wasnt a happy ending for the humans for a split second until I realised the kids were the next step in evolution :)

[@SuperCrazyEstonian]

I think i am just dead tired of the "next step in evolution" narrative. And her bein a teacher locked in that box was kinda off putting as well.

[@chancepaladin]

it feels more like a sort of x-men ending if magneto won. It isn't bad, it just isn't coexistance.

[@johnmarquez7413]

From my point of view the Jedi are evil

[@Carols989]

it made me like the movie better actually. It was just a generic zombie movie until then, had the balls to pull a very unique ending

[@recession81]

Thank you for this you answered all of my questions about this film

[@backupbackup1678]

Amazing video as always Niyat. Can you do a video about dauntless' bohemeths?

[@EllyJelly23.]

Last of us..

[@ZionJM]

Even has Ellie.

[@holdenwalker7045]

Exactly

[@paulolucero9864]

It's 20 years later too

[@markhernandez7229]

ThunderApocalypse i think we all know....

[@RandomMajin]

Oh yeah! That game sucked! ^_^

[@shuttittuppitt9355]

"The boy on the bridge" is a (book) PREQUEL to this, but the last 1% of it tells what happens about 10 years AFTER this movie.

[@briennabradley]

Fantastic movie thank you for bringing it to my attention so i could watch!!

[@viscera9579]

Your voice is so calming yet so suspenseful

[@acatwithinternet5635]

So how long before they all starve to death, because they ate everything?

[@jamesbiering2589]

Man I saw most of this movie on TV few years ago and couldn't remember name of it but thought it was a fantastic movie thanks for video!!

[@ms.yawhaw8831]

THEY RECORDED THAT NEAR FREAKING CHERNOBYL??? I hope the place where they did it ins't too radiated

[@GKC38]

Thankyou man! I remember commenting on all your videos to do this one. Thankyou so much again.

[@lauchsuppedeluxelauchsuppe1803]

8:20 but did she T-pose?

[@JungleToes]

XD

[@charlieadammcintosh3548]

Loads ar15

[@andyt2363]

Great review and explanations intriguing film which I completely missed

[@toefairy4302]

This has been recommended to me for a year straight. And I’m just now watching it.

[@BlueVenom9]

thats why you don't sympathize with monsters, they weren't children they were things, things that meant to destroy and replace human life. They should have been exterminated witg extreme prejudice and zero mercy or remorse.

[@matthewblairrains6032]

They had to be kept alive because the doctor was trying to make a cure out of them

[@Janonas]

But when the time came to dissect them, emotions won over racionality and humanity got wiped out because of it.

[@Oghuzpervert1]

Purge the mutants and their sympathisers no mercy no respite

[@Andriej69]

SJW's and ecologists like to jack off to humanity's destruction and/or extinction, this is essentially fucktard-eco-porn

[@Novamaster050]

Yes those homosapiens suck I am definitely one of those humans

[@matthewmckenna248]

Could you cover the Vampires from Priest?

[@filmcomicsexplained]

yep they are on the list :)

[@therealswim]

FilmComicsExplained YA YEET

[@chris2944]

Hell yes.

[@sgt.lincolnosiris4111]

@@terriesmith8219 his name is Geoffrey Chaucer, good sir. The lily among the thorns!

[@vick9435]

Thanks for examining this movie. I wasn't able to understand the infection. My mind kept going back to nature (in regards to the word "cordyceps"), after viewing your explanation, I now understand why. Hollywood has a way of changing the meaning of words as we have come to learn and know them, and that was my mindset. I can now watch the movie with a better appreciation of the "science" behind it. Keep up the great work.

[@caracalandra5693]

Melanie was a selfish character who had no thought for others

[@Milkman4279]

It was the fungus inside her. It controlled her and used her to do its bidding.

[@daniellevaughn4598]

the little girl was phenomenal in this.

[@mercifulbutbroken6675]

I absolutely love your reviews and how you explain the story in each one. Keep up the amazing work, and please don’t ever change the way you make these videos.

[@ChrispyNut]

Really good film. Watched last night having seen a thumbnail in the "related videos" on/for this channel without any knowledge what the premise was. Always enhances good films, going in blind.

[@xsomili5501]

I was at a Australian airport, and i found and bought this book. I remember being intrigued by he plain yellow cover with white fonts. I finished the book on a 13 houra plane. I loved the book and story a lot... I cant wait to watch this movid

[@liamhayes23]

My new favorite channel

[@filmcomicsexplained]

awesome dude! :)

[@the_angry_angora963]

Thank you for the uploads, keep them coming.

[@Sahnatics]

2:19 when your a zombie but want good dental hygiene

[@croydonrudeness1079]

Great overview. It's a brilliant film, all the actors do a great job and the girl is awesome, one to watch for the future.

[@GrizzlyClawss]

The movie was great until the last 20 mins...

[@Slemoster]

Because the "evil" people win? Grow up.

[@zsher538]

@@Slemoster ehh you kinda expect for the "good guys" of the movies to win, it happens in 99% of movies lol

[@vianjelos]

I think the vaccine would have failed anyway...why didnt she use the other boy to make the vaccine? Melanie was no different from the others like her...and even if the vaccine was sucessful, what then? How would it have been produced en mass? The doctor was dying and supplies were low..it would have died with her. And if the other humans were immunized? What does that do for them if they will still be hunted down? The options were bleak for the humans..their numbers dwindling, their camps being over run..at the very least when they turned this time, they turned without the pain of being bitten.

[@vianjelos]

@A. G. probbaly not..they were eatting worms in the begining, and can go a while without food. Its not hard to find worms at least. There also not many of them, so they wouldnt eat all the worms or bugs to extinction either. The adult Hungries would strave because they wont chase anything that isnt making noise, the kids are smart enough to find food.

[@augustuzmoon3814]

@@Slemoster no because the ending was dumb

[@bluebearSimon]

Love this page...... Keep up the good work

[@BerryHunter]

The Soundtrack of that movie its gorgeous. Hearing to it made me feel something more than just tension... like if i was inide the movie.

[@rosehites3419]

"JESUS CHRIST I SAID SUPPRESSORS!" in a whispery-yelling tone is the best line in a zombie movie I've seen.

[@yeetclicker2714]

*shows a child biting someone's throat out* *Instantly cuts to: I don't need to breathe as much as you*

[@CinnamonYates]

Yay new video!! Random fact: Paddy Considine (spelling?) was in this movie and he's from my home town and attended the same college I do/did :3

[@filmcomicsexplained]

no way! thats so cool :)

[@6av1d8]

I came back after 2 hours lol I heard u talk about the movie in the beginning and went to watch it before I watched this and it was a good movie

[@fearanarchy]

Just one of the most reflective Zombie movies since certain Night of the Living Dead movies. Utterly amazing.

[@avantikaroy5146]

Zombies running? Awwh HELL NAH!!

[@standingash]

"I am a monument to all your sins" - The Gravemind, Halo 2

[@larrycoburn6654]

Omg I SAW THIS AS A KID THANKS DUDE

[@keepgoing7533]

The scene in the lab, where the infected are running towards an unaware Caldwell is frightening; I initially thought they were retreating soldiers.