10 Most Overlooked Films Of This Decade

10. The Girl With All The Gifts (2017)

The only reason The Girl With All the Gifts was allowed to pass by unnoticed is because zombie apocalypses have been done to death, but anyone who dismissed Colm McCarthy's doomsday thriller as another 'me-too' addition to the horde missed out big time.

McCarthy's adaptation of M.R. Carey's novel is a grounded take on its subject matter, drawing favourable comparisons to the Danny Boyle classic 28 Days Later with its smart CGI choices and memorable characters.

Sennia Nanua delivers a fantastic breakthrough performance as an infected youngster who could hold the key to mankind's survival. Her character Melanie is a different type of 'zombie', who craves human flesh but retains the ability to reason and learn, and this is apt because The Girl With All the Gifts is a new breed of zombie film.

There's a bitter irony to the fact that the human race's last hope is part of the very threat that has brought it to its knees, and McCarthy uses this premises to pose weighty moral conundrums, giving the movie the kind of depth the world has rarely seen in the zombie genre since the late George A Romero's heyday.