welcome back to movie recaps today i will show you a post-apocalyptic zombie movie from 2016 titled the girl with all the gifts spoilers ahead watch out and take care melanie is lying in bed as the lights in her cell come on she gets up and starts preparing for school two soldiers come in and she greets them happily but the only thing they care about is securing her to the wheelchair they will her out in the hallway getting her in a line with other children like her melanie and the others are placed in a classroom positioned
by numbers melanie asks the teacher miss justino to tell them a story and proposes she reads them a myth so that it could count as history the teacher complies reluctantly and reads them the myth of pandora's box after class melanie is taken back to her cell where the two edgy soldiers refuse to greet her good night later she's given dinner the serving is a plate full of worms she falls asleep as she eats the next day melanie gets a visit from dr caldwell the girl has solved a riddle the doctor had given her so she
gives her a new one explaining that it's a logic problem she asks her to solve the problem of schrodinger's cat when melanie can't answer the doctor writes something down concerning her behavior and reads it back to her calling her a subject lastly the doctor asks melanie for a number and she replies with 13. later the soldiers pick her up and the other children for school again as melanie is being wheeled past the numbered cells she sees that number 13 hasn't been opened when she gets to the classroom the same numbered place remains empty the teacher
decides to give them a writing assignment for that particular class and the children are worried that they wouldn't know what story to tell melanie is the only one writing a longer one in her notebook so when the teacher asks for someone to read it loud what they wrote she quickly raises her hand she depicts herself as the savior and hero in her writing the teacher gets overwhelmed by the story and goes over to melanie wanting to touch her suddenly sergeant parks burst inside the classroom and screams that touching the children is forbidden he wants to
give justino a reminder of why that's the case so he walks up to one of the children and rolls his sleeve bringing his arm close to it the child sniffs him and unhinges its jaw wanting to bite him the other children mimic the same behavior after the class sergeant parks walks into melanie's cell as the others are getting ready to take off her restraints the girl antagonizes him so he leaves her restrained to the chair the same night justino goes to see melanie and when she realizes that she has been left like that she walks
into the cell and starts taking off the restraints the girl gets a sniff of the teacher's scent and starts turning like the other children before melanie turns completely she tells the teacher to get out later that night dr caldwell comes to visit her again they chat and she asks the girl for another number melanie answers with the number four which is the same number as her own cell the following morning sergeant parks comes in to get melanie he gets her out of the cell and inside of an elevator he wheels her out of the facility
as gunshots are hurt all around soldiers are seen running and shooting toward the fence of the military complex melanie is confused by the sight as parks wheels her to another part of the complex and takes her in a laboratory where dr caldwell is waiting she asks the girl about schroedinger's cat but when she doesn't get the response she wants she explains that the cat in the box is both alive and dead just like melanie a second doctor injects a sedative in her arm instantly knocking her out they move her to a slab and restrain her
but she quickly wakes up justino runs inside to stop the doctor from cutting up melanie after a few other promising words she convinces the teacher to put her weapon down and immediately pepper sprays her incapacitating her so the soldiers can arrest her she explains to her that she isn't just cutting melanie up but is using her as a source for a vaccine justino is taken away an alarm start blaring caldwell tells the other doctor to drop the shutters but as she does that a zombie breaks trough the glass biting her relentlessly caldwell kills the zombies
cutting her own hand in the process the other doctor starts turning completely but she escapes the lab just in time melanie is left alone in the lab with a zombie though it doesn't touch her the girl grabs a scalpel and frees herself from the restraints melody walks outside to find complete chaos in the complex zombies running around attacking soldiers as they try to shoot them down suddenly she sees justino getting beat up by the soldiers enraged she runs toward them attacks and bites them eventually killing them both before passing out justina waits to find melanie
beside her picks her up and gets her inside a military vehicle the zombies completely take over the complex as the vehicle is seen leaving followed by a hurt sometime later it stops in the middle of nowhere as parks and kieran realize that melanie is in the back of the vehicle with them justino lets the girl out as caldwell screams that doing that is not her decision to make melanie runs just a little way off from the vehicle and stops clearly seeing the outside for the first time the others stay by the vehicle trying to radio
to other outposts to no avail as the doctor tells them to retrieve her test subject parks kieran and caldwell check the vehicle for supplies but find no water or food just a mask used to retrieve zombies the sergeant makes a plan to go south to beacon assuming everyone back at the complex is dead except the zombie children they put melanie on the gunner's seat of the vehicle strapped in and masked and make their way to a river to get water when they arrived there a few zombies find them prompting a shootout with the soldiers one
of the soldiers gets bitten in the fight so parks waits a moment to see if he'll turn and when the process starts he shoots him closing the doors of the vehicle he realizes that justino has brought melanie in with them which makes him terribly nervous the girl asked about the zombies and caldwell explains that they were people infected with a fungus transmitted through biting when parks goes to start the vehicle he realizes that it's busted and that they would have to go on foot through london a quicker but more dangerous route parks and kieran survey
the perimeter which they would have to cross it's filled with zombies they inform the others that there is no alternative but to pass trough the zombies and find shelter and supplies once they're inside the city the group walks between a mass of sleeping zombies careful not to wake them suddenly park stops when they reach a dead end a zombie mother pushes a baby cart toward them and caldwell goes up to her making her stop she sees the baby move in the cart and checks it only to find a rat inside she yelps waking the zombie
mother first and then the others the group manages to escape and moves through the zombie-filled streets of the city eventually finding an abandoned hospital and going inside parks finds an opening to another floor and they all climb up where they will be much safer parks justino and kieran immediately go on patrol while caldwell and melanie stay back as they're left alone the girl asks where she came from the doctor explains that her and others like her were found on a maternity ward in a hospital they were the children of mothers who got infected with the
fungus while they were still pregnant so the infection got in their system through the placenta caldwell tells her that they were different than the other zombies able to think and react almost like real people later justinio returns giving melanie new clothes she found for her and apologizing that she didn't find any food that night park and justino talk about melanie and he tells her that the girl loves her meanwhile kieran is guarding the girl and she bonds with him as well the next morning they notice that more zombies have gathered in front of the hospital
they have no way out but melanie comes up with an idea since the zombies won't attack her she convinces them to let her go outside and find a way to move the zombies away from the building caldwell doesn't like the plan but without an alternative plan the others agree before she leaves melanie asks to put on her new clothes she goes outside and passes the zombies without trouble suddenly she sees a cat hunts it down and eats it raw later she goes into a house and finds a little dog when she comes back she uses
it as a decoy for the zombies getting them all away from the hospital parks puts the mask and the handcuffs back on and they continue the journey trough the abandoned city headed for beacon on their way they see something strange the fungus growing out of the bodies of the zombies something the doctor thinks is the next stage in the life cycle of the fungus she then tells melanie that in her case the fungus works more as a symbiote than a parasite like in the others going deeper in the city they find a huge mass of
bodies growing into a massive fungus that caldwell suspects is the reason why no walking zombies are around when enough of them come together they transform into the mature stage of the fungus that can pollinate larger areas if not the entire world on their way they suddenly find a mobile laboratory they get inside the vehicle and start looking traffic park tries the engine first and then the radio no response kieran leaves on a supply run and melanie is getting uneasy like she's about to turn she tells them that she needs to eat too and they let
her out to hunt she finds her food fast and tears right through it when she's done eating she hears a strange sound and follows it to a bookstore she peeps trough and sees a group of children communicating with grunts melanie understands that they are just like her when suddenly one of them comes inside and tells the others that he has smelled something they all follow him out back at the mobile lab caldwell is getting sicker and informs justina that she has sepsis then she starts talking about melanie again and how she needs her brain and
spine to make the vaccine much to justino's displeasure suddenly melanie returns and tells them about the children she saw convinced that they will hunt for kieran he's seen walking down a street and suddenly finding an unopened can on the ground and then another one until he sees a store and crawls under the shutter to get in once inside he starts eating and looking trough dirty magazines a little girl appears behind him startling him she lures him between the rafters of the store and momentarily more children appear when their leader joins them they all attack kieran
together meanwhile melanie is leading parks and justino to him she can smell him like the other kids did they finally arrive at the store go inside and find kieran half-eaten melanie realizes that the children didn't just set a trap for him but for them as well they go outside and see that she was right the group of kids is waiting for them melanie challenges the leader and fights with him when she kills him to prove to the others that she is the strongest she's able to protect parks and justino and lead them back to safety
they arrive at the lab to see that the door is open when they walk inside caldwell sedates them with some kind of gas she pulls melanie toward the slab to perform her procedure but stops because she's in terrible pain from her hand she turns around for a moment to fix it but when she turns back around melanie is already conscious and alert they talk and she tries to convince the girl to give herself up so that she can save everyone with her vaccine melanie almost agrees but asks one last question she wants to know if
the doctor thinks she's alive or just mimicking human behavior caldwell answers with the former then the girl says why should we die to save you melanie runs out leaving the doctor in the lab but she follows her lagging behind melanie with no gun or protection caldwell is immediately surrounded by the zombie children meanwhile the girl goes to the huge fungus they found before she sets it on fire with the intention to activate the spores unfortunately parks had followed her too and he gets infected melanie didn't plan for that to happen as he starts turning he
asks her to shoot him before he becomes one of them later justino wakes up in the lab protected from the spores realizing what has happened with melanie waiting for her outside the lab in the final moments of the film justina was woken up by melanie sometime has clearly passed she take out a whiteboard with her and starts a class with the zombie children listening to her from the other side of the lab window melanie is their leader now and they all attend miss justino's lessons together make sure to subscribe and turn on notifications so you
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