Thought it was really good, a mix of 28 days later and Last of us, with a cool plot and decent acting. I Watched the film and Iβm currently listening to the audio book which is reminding me of the βWeβre aliveβ podcasts (also excellent).
Anyone got any other recommendations? I donβt rate Z nation FYI.
In the 90s I was a child and saw a movie that resonated with me. I always thought it was called βMad Moneyβ... but thatβs a completely different film.
I canβt remember the whole plot, but it centres around a little girl from a poor family, set in the 40s or 50s , whoβs invited to another childβs birthday party but canβt go as her family is too poor to afford a birthday gift. I remember the family was very poor as the girl (or her father) complained they had to eat bologna every night for supper. Anyway, the mother had stashed a bit of money away in a jar over the years for a rainy day, (a bit of Mad Money?), and decided to use it to buy the girl a new party dress and a gift for the birthday party. I donβt remember much else.
Does any of this sound familiar?
I really liked that movie when I first saw it. I donβt know if itβs much relevancy here but I just wanted to share with someone who likes the score of Utopia, apologies if this isnβt very relevant
Title , she already has a couple pens , can't recall what brands they were .I would prefer to buy the gift online if possible. Thank you for reading my post :)
Update : After careful consideration and heeding the advice of many , I have decided to get the inkvent calendar. This has been an awesome introduction to the world of foundation pens and a warm welcome to the fountain pen community, I thank you all for the responses, I did not expect my post to get so many responses I apologise if I couldn't reply to your comments .
That was a masterpiece. The flow of the film was great. The "twist" I guess you could call it of the ferral children building a primitive tribal society living unbothered by the zombies was really interesting. Then the very sci fi part of the zombie fungus building a tree of flamable pods that ended mankind was extra bonus cool. The ending was great when you realize it all came full circle, that the teacher was now in a cell. Brilliantly done.
Update! The whole movie is free on youtube The Girl With All The Gifts 2016 Full Horror Movie: https://youtu.be/vAIeLNJUlgI
I was quite certain that we had hit and passed Peak Zombie about a decade ago, that every story worth telling in that genre had already been told, over and over. Then Mike Carey's 'The Girl with All the Gifts' was published (and turned into a film) and I was delighted to learn that I was wrong: Carey wrote a story that found its path through the wreckage of the genre and engaged the reader/viewer with something new.
Carey's Felix Castor books do the same thing for the world of devils and demons, saints and succubi, things that gibber madly in the night... if you're sick of sparkly vampires and high-school werewolves, the Felix Castor books are the antidote.
You haven't heard of them? Good News! Books 1-5 (The Devil You Know, Vicious Circle, Dead Men's Boots, Thicker Than Water, and The Naming of the Beasts) have just been republished in the US. Amazon has them as books and ebooks.
And there is even better news: asked about the possibility of the sixth book coming out, Carey said:
> "I've said over the years that I wanted to cap off the series with a sixth novel, but the books' audience, though committed, wasn't big enough at the time to make it possible. That may now change, with the new US editions of the five existing books. Certainly I get asked a lot when the final book is going to appear. I'm hoping to have the conversation with my editors once that wave of reissues has gone through, later this year. I've also said lots of times that I had a plan for the book and only had to get stuck into writing it. But I looked at the plan recently and had what I think are some better ideas, so it won't be as automatic as all that. Probably that's all for the best, though. It's a sign that my mind is engaging with Castor and that world again."ο»Ώ (Source: see comments below this interview video.)
If you, or any of your friends, haven't read the books, now is the perfect time to buy a copy. If sales are good enough we might be able to read the final book in the series, the thing the first five books have been hurtling toward all along.
Has anyone else read these 2 companion books? I almost never read this genre, but the depth of the unique characters and the creativity in the world building pulled me in hard. Some combination of the desperate action and human relationships transcends the usual tropes. I actually hobbled to the library on crutches after reading GWATG to get the other book!
Solved: it's Plague Town (2008). American tourists visiting rural Ireland on a heritage-tracing trip find a village where due to a curse all the kids are deformed, wearing masks, and homicidal, while the adults are trying to cover for the kids to protect them. Trailer: https://youtu.be/-nLG5ItAAI0
I saw this in the early 2000s and think it was relatively recent at the time. It was a horror film I believe set in Europe in modern times (pretty sure it was in English) where some people around college age were in the woods and gradually killed off by masked figures. I want to say one scene involved a woman being trapped in or snared to a log before being killed.
Towards the end of the film one young woman is in a decrepit abandoned pre-modern village in the woods and ends up being locked upstairs and these people with deformed faces come in and she somehow understands she's being kept alive for breeding stock so men of the village can have sex with her and produce non-deformed children to save the community.
EDIT: I believe but am not sure that the enemies wore masks for the early part of the hunting/killing people and only after she was captured did she get to see their deformed faces.
EDIT: holy crap apparently there are a lot of really rapey horror films about using women for breeding stock. EDIT: except it turns out in Plague Town that it's the guy who's kept alive and pressed to have sex with an eyeless teenage girl to improve their breeding stock. EDIT: and then later they also try the girl.
| THE GIRL WITH ALL THE GIFTS (2014) |
After the movie was out, I was interested in reading the book first, because the plot seemed interesting to me and it looked like it could be a pleasant read.
The Girl with All the Gifts tells us a story about Melanie, a 10-year-old girl who is different. She loves to go to school, learn new things and talk to her favorite and beloved teacher, Justineau... But, going to school means waiting every day in her cell for the armed men to come and get her, tied to a wheelchair, to the classroom. The world outside is dead, infested with hungries (the name given to the infected people). The military base where she has spent her life since she can remember is the only thing she understands as "world". The twist to this simple zombie horror novel is the fact that Melanie herself is a hungry too. And this sets up the beginning to an amazing and complex ride in this new world created by M.R Carey.
I would actually like to start with the beginning. In my opinion, where this novel truly shines is in the introduction. The build up and the description of this new world is told to us and reported in a gradual way, mostly by the innocent and naive mind of Melanie, in a way in which the world begins to build effectively in our mind, ending up having a peripheral vision of what is happening. Much of this successful view of the world is also due to the narrator's change of perspective throughout the novel, that, although the story is always told in the third person, the way the narrator changes of "place" as it accompanies the action as viewed from above, end up giving opinions and ways of analyzing events differently, thus contributing to a wide range of perspectives and different ideas given to the different personalities of each character. The main group and the most important characters are: Sargent Parks, chief sergeant of the military base; Helen Justineau, the teacher adored by Melanie; Dr. Caroline Caldwell, the scientist responsible for the research, that takes place at the military base, on the fungus that turned people into hungries; and the character who becomes more present only in the second part of the book, Kieran Gallagher, military agent on the leadership of Sargent Parks. All these different perspectives give the novel a lot more personality.
One thing I wasn't actually expecting was the amount of science around the n
... keep reading on reddit β‘I loved the book until we get the explication of the cause of the infection and how it resolves at the end. Does anyone else feel that way?
This was a pretty cool film, based on magic, legends and lore. It has it's flaws but, definitely a watchable film. The "creature" was an interesting take.
I'm really hankering for some apocalypse-by-creatures lit. Problem is, I am a voracious and lifelong horror fan so I am afraid I may have read all the good stuff there is. Can anyone recommend something new? I have read:
All of King
All of Lovecraft
All of Mira Grant
All of Nick Cutter
All of Peter Clines
Most of Brian Keene
The Strain
The Twelve
The Call by Peadar O Guilin
Bird Box
The Girl with all the Gifts
World War Z
Fiend by Brian Stenson
Fifth Season by N K Jemison
Metro 2033
I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream
I Am Legend
The Fifth Wave by Rick Yancey
Shutter by Alameda Courtney
Please help this over-read nerd!
Thanks for any suggestions.
Really enjoyed it and new to reading as a hobby, any suggestions would be appreciated!
Ok had to come somewhere to talk about this movie. I know the movie is liked by a lot of people and i loved the movie as well. Well at least about up until the last 25 mins.
Holy crap i have to say that ending completely ruined it for me. Felt super rushed and not well thought out at all. The whole film is all about Melanie being extremely nice to everyone mostly and very protective of the people around her. Then all of a sudden because one old lady wants to use her to possibly save the human race she pulls a complete 180 and decides to basically doom and kill off the entire human race and effectively imprison her teacher, the person she loved the most and loved her the most for the rest of her presumably short life. Because where is she going to get food and water now that she is locked in the truck lab?
honestly im not just a sucker for a happy ending but that felt really poorly done and left a bad taste in an otherwise extremely interesting film and take on zombies via fungal infection.
I just watched this movie yesterday. Itβs so good! Iβd never heard of it before. A total hidden gem. Watch if you like 28 Days Later (itβs not as intense but I got similar vibes).
Everything I can find says Sept 9th at the Toronto Film Festival, and Sept 23rd in the UK, but nothing about a US date.
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