The Girl with All the Gifts(2016)
2016 · Colm McCarthy · 111 min
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.
Action · Horror · Science Fiction
6.62.2k votes
TMDB score
4/5
Intensity
3/5
Gore
3/5
Stays with you
How scary is The Girl with All the Gifts?
There's a heavy, sad weight hanging over this one, more grim survival story than thrill ride. The scares come from being chased and cornered by fast, feral infected people rather than jump scares, and the danger feels constant and physical once things start moving. Under the tension there's real emotional unease about identity and what makes someone human, which sits with you longer than the action does. It's built for people who want a bleak, thoughtful apocalypse story with real bite, not a fun scare fest.
On The Horror Database's 0–5 scare profile, The Girl with All the Gifts rates psychological 3/5, visceral 4/5, gore 3/5, lingering effect 3/5, and overall intensity 4/5.
- Psychological: 3 of 5
- Visceral: 4 of 5
- Gore: 3 of 5
- Lingering: 3 of 5
- Intensity: 4 of 5
Slow burn vs Jump scares: 25 of 100 — leans Slow burn
Supernatural vs Real-world: 78 of 100 — leans Real-world
Fun-scary vs Disturbing: 68 of 100 — leans Disturbing
Intensity over runtime
Shape only — no eventsReveal pacing shapeHide pacing shapeHidden by default — shows where the tension peaks and lets up.
Starts contained and tense, then keeps breaking into bursts of danger with only brief breathers, building toward an intense, unsettled ending.
Intensity across the runtime, 0 to 100: 1, 1, 2, 3, 4, 3, 2, 3, 4, 3, 4, 5.
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