Shows like The Walking Dead reign over The Girl With All The Gifts because the breakdown of society, how people fully function within it is the core of the story.

Might be the most inadvertently appropriate analog to life in 2017's increasingly unstable world.

It's really the big picture of the film that sets it apart.

The power of the film, though, and its relevance, isn’t just in its message of acceptance, but in its vision of the terror that potential acceptance provokes.