Thanks for watching guys! I should have a video dropping around Christmas but incase things go absolutely haywire in between now and then, Merry early Christmas and to everyone who doesnt celebrate that, Hope you enjoy celebrating what you do!

If you've ever owned an outdoor cat, you know that no child could catch it if it doesn't want to be caught.

In the book it's explicit that Melanie understands exactly what she's doing to the world when she sets the 'tree' on fire, it's just that she's seen how bad things are and has decided that humanity already lost, so she may as well usher in the new age.

the pods being released by fire is actually quite common in plants, some pine trees drop their cones after fires in order to repopulate the forest

Whenever a show or movie has infected that are fast-moving, jerky, and exaggerated with their actions, I always wonder how much fun the actors had portraying that whenever they played an infected or got infected.

The First of Us looks great 👍

This movie is the literal definition of “your not you when your hungry”. Edit: When people care more about grammar than joke...

In the book, Melanie is "special" because she wants to learn, which is something that many of the other children don't have - it's nothing to do with the fungus overtaking her, but more to do with her personality. The doctor also doesn't know how the kids "function" with the fungus, which is why she dissects them. The movie was good, but the book is actually way more interesting in the way it explores the disease and Melanie as a character. In the book as well, she 100% knows what she's doing when she sets the tree (in the book it's like a wall of fungus) on fire. She intends to bring about the new world.

In the zombie movies, it’s a wonder to me why no one ever decides to wear chain mail armour

2020 has taught me that it’s impossible to overestimate the stupidity of people. So for me it’s believable when people in zombie movies do idiotic things.

Crows are also entering the stone age, learning to make tools and teaching their young to make them.

It's important to note that the fungus does not "puppeteer" the insects, it merely uses chemicals to alter their instinctive behavior. It basically just has them: 1. Have muscle spasms to make them fall from the forest canopy 2. Try to climb up something 3. Bite down and hold it All three of these can presumably be done by chemicals sequentially introduced into the hemocoel. The first and third are basically just muscle spasms/contractions and don't require "mind control", and the second presumably just activates an instinct.

Don’t be that kid that growls during fights 😭😂

"suppressors are not silent" THANK YOU!! god i hate that movies have people thinking they make a firearm silent, they only make it less likely youll go deaf in a home defense scenario.

I've heard the "being eaten from the inside by your zombie-baby - one" quite a few times by now and sure: it IS creepy, but I always wondered: would that even be possible? Babys do not have teeth, while still in the womb after all. I could see them thrashing around and causing internal damage that way and maybe suckle on what ever they can get their lips around, but I have a hard time believing that they could actually sever tissue.

When learning about this fungus in a bio course. My professors implied that it’s possible that the fungus only hijacks the motor areas of the ant so it is still “aware” as this fungus makes it move. Creepy

The ants don’t die (until they starve) when infected with the virus. The ant is still alive but unable to control its own body. Imagine being trapped in your own body

"The future's looking bleak for England." Don't need a biologist to tell us that.

Melanie definitely was calling in a new world. She has a line that goes like “it’s not your world anymore” so very intentional.

12:20 as someone who used to be that kid, it's one of the biggest regrets of my life and I am so sorry to anyone and everyone who ever knew me in elementary school.

I like how there's never one thing mentioned in video games or movies when a character gets surprised by an infected. . . . . THE SMELL!!!!! Rotting flesh, peeing and pooping themselves . . . There would be no "surprising" someone.

Didn’t expect a video on KZfaq about zombies to learn the fact that Chimpanzees and Orangutans have entered the stone age

Dolphins : i guess living underwater is not bad after all

I am just so happy you brought up that chimpanzees and orangutans are legitimately, literally have entered the "stone age". It's wild and amazing to see something so similar to our own ancient history happening in real time.

I just wanted to take the time to say that in the book everything is explained alot more clearly and the characters decisions makes a lot of sense, it's a great read. But I also wnated to mention that there is a second book, a prequel, called "the boy on the bridge". That goes into even more detail and information. It explains why the mobile lab is where it is and what happened to the crew. I strongly recomend everyone reading it.

If you have not read the book I highly suggest it- ironically almost all of the problems you had with the doctor are addressed in the book. In the book the doctor does not know why the children still have control over there faculties, but has delusions of finding a cure through them, leading to her grisly brain removing experiments- which even she says is just her flailing around with incorrect tools. There is no elaborate story of the 'hungry kids' nesting inside there mothers and slowly eating there way out, just that they sometimes get found among hungries, but seem capable of higher thought. Eventually she gets access to better tools and takes apart one of the children, and is completely devastated to find that there is no 'cure' to be found The girl in the end consciously decides to release the fungus and finish wiping out humanity, because there flailing against the fungus, each other, and targeting other infected children, will just doom humanity- and the proper way forward is to focus efforts on passing as much knowledge as possible to the 'hungry kids'

The movie in a nutshell: Reject humanity, return to monke

I couldn’t stop laughing when you said “feral children” idk why. I just laughed

I just realized, this fungus may wipe out everything on the planet. This thing has the host eat it's own kind, meaning less hosts for the fungus to propagate within . It doesn't seem to be interested in infecting anything either, as anyone who gets the craving eats until their satiated, and in a large enough group, that means until there's nothing left. Eventually, it may begin to infect animals, but unless it starts feeding on other sources of energy, well, we've seen what happens to the host when there isn't enough food to sustain them. Eventually, those spores will have nothing left to infect. On the plus side, the sea life is most likely gonna be alright.

I never skip too the time stamp because you talking is for some reason very relaxing

The funny thing is that even if the suppressed guns were completely silent, you'd think that the screams of each zombie before they get shot would alert the rest of the horde anyway lmao

I don't think you could classify this as a symbiotic relationship that helps the human survive without their consciousness when the 2nd phase of the fungus literally kills the human to make the spores.

Thank you for saying the truth about suppressors. As a gun owner/enthusiast (although I don't have a suppressor because it's a pain in the rear to get), it is extremely annoying when everyone thinks suppressors literally make guns silent.

Finally, someone says what I've been saying for years. You wouldn't need to kill the host to get proper samples of the fungus, whether it's The Last of Us or The Girl With All the Gifts.

OH ALSO, in the book the infected bang and reproduce with the second generation having a more symbiotic than parasitic relationship with the fungus, rather than it relying on expecting women to get infected. Other than the lady and the stroller, one of the infected was singing and looking through old pictures and stuff, and the Dr. basically found out that some higher thinking remains in some of the hungries to an extent, SOMEtimes. i just finished the book and the movie tonight and i just think it's neat, okay

Maybe she’s different than the others because when her brain remapped its functions, it could’ve rewired in such a way as to increase her ability to process oxytocin, and part of her deformity included an increased sense of kinship and love towards others.

What i find weird in every zombie movie is : WHY didn’t militaries napalm the CITIES already ? ^^

"The quack known as Abby's dad." THANK YOU!!!!!!! Been saying this for ages! I was hoping the second game would have Ellie and Joel going to a doctor that actually knows what they are doing.

When movies portray suppressors as “complete sound blocking magic boom tubes” it drives me fucking nuts.

“Fists are connected, every part of your body is connected.” -Bilbo Baggins

I literally got multiple "mushroom coffee" ads during this video. ALL PRAISE THE ALMIGHTY ALGORITHM!

"stop moving" "No, must protect child" "No, stop moving" "must. protect. child." "Stop moving, now" "No, must protect child" "STAHP!" "Protect the child"

so wait...the ENTIRE CONFLICT with ellie in the last of us could have been solved...with a SPINAL TAP??

THE TLOU MUSIC IN THE BG IS SENDING ME IM LAUGHING

It is so bizarre to me that now with Ellie’s immunity in TLoU being more fleshed out in the TV Series, the circumstances in which she became immune are so eerily similar to the kids’ immunity in this movie.

This universe was terrifying. Although, its never explicitly mentioned if Applebees closed for business or not following the Cordyceps outbreak, so there's an ambiguous glimmer of hope for mankind.

FINALLY! Someone actually remembers this movie! So many people I know never have seen this movie and it’s personally one of my favorites!

I'm a little late to comment, but I read the book where they use the woman pushing the stroller to explain there are two ways for the children to exist: the mothers were already pregnant pre-infection, or (and I found this disturbing), as the video also points out, some instincts and behaviors are still present, and yes, zombies were doing the dirty. It's the only explanation they could come up with for the children of various ages the soldiers kept "finding" and bringing back. It's a very nice book and a quick read, the author, being originally a screenwriter, is very visual in his writing.

the mom pushing the stroller is really sad when you think about it.

Not to sound weird but even with movies or games I know about I don't skip because I like hearing you talk about these things passionately

The Hungries is what I get when I walk within 10 feet of the fridge

I like the idea that the way they stand like that, in fairly close groups that could reach between each other is a callback to cilia. Everywhere in the city is basically a stomach and digestive system, a place where nutrients are actually eaten and digested, effectively making a form of sense-oriented, "appendages" of the fungus to more effectively alert the hungry hosts when one is alerted, then just fill in gaps and the net is reset for the "stomach" to work again.

*hears the last of us and reads cordyceps in the title* Did someone call me?

I just realized you could be making up words and lying about everything and i'd have no clue

Melanie how dare you. Not only eating a cat, but baiting infected with a dog?! >:(

Your Miss Mittens looks just like my Tobey 😭 (he passed away from cancer) what a lovely kitty you have ❤️

Fire propagation of spores is a terrible idea. A tree that big would burn extremely hot and the spores would ignite, and and we would have a powder explosion.

30:11 "Literally anyone with a biology degree can tell you, (...) that both these doctors are complete idiots" "They asked me if I had a degree in theoretical biology and I answered I had a theoretical degree in biology" -Abby's Dad

Moral of the story is when there is a cure litterally inches away from being created you let the experiment die! Now the teacher is responsible for killing off humanity. Great fucking job

This kind of reminds me of the story of the girl who had half of her brain to help stop her servere and debilitating epilepsy.

The science of this doesn't make sense. The decay would incapacitate its hosts too quickly for that many zombies to be functional at the same time

Parents: Quit being lazy! Quit standing around and work! Adult Infected: I'm not lazy, I'm just highly motivated to do nothing

Who knows what will happen once puberty kicks in.

depends on the ammo! subsonic ammo in a closed bolt rifle/smg with a closed sloop gas system and a supressor can be literally barely a puff more than just the chunk sounds of the action cycling

Nerve system as baby: hmm i think ur natural soo i'll let you pass Fungi: Same to you man

She wasn’t trying to save everyone at all. It’s a very dark movie.

I know that this movie is basically the end of the human race, but if you think about it, it's not too bad. I mean, the defect in children will honestly not really become a "defect" anymore as they grow up and repopulate the world. "Soon" the human race will be back to normal. Yes, the fact that all species other than humans is wiped out might provide a bit of challenges, but not something that they couldn't necessarily not overcome.

8:00 I hate that in movies and games...A suppressed rifle w/ hypersonic rounds is gonna do about absolutely nothing to hide your position when the enemy is literally 2 feet away.

The girl with all the gifts opened Pandora's box deliberately in order to release hope. It wasn't an attempt to destroy the "threat" of the pods to the non-infected. It was to remove the threat of the non-infected non symbiotic humans who themselves had little hope.

Something you kinda missed and I wanted to point it out because Coldwell is my favorite character and I think a lot of people misunderstand her. She wasn't some child killing monster, even in the book. It was the end of the world and she needed to find a cure, and actually was right on the verge of creating one. She was there for the science. The scene with Melanie deciding to not sacrifice herself was significant because of the science, which the movie didn't get into too much. Basically, Coldwell had studied the fungus (the irl one) and knew that it was common for it to mimic the hosts behavior to continue the spread. That's why she's always asking the children weird questions. She's trying to figure out if they are actually children, or the fungus lying in wait to strike and only pretending to be innocent children. So, that scene was so significant because up until that moment, Coldwell didn't think she was actually alive, and neither did Melanie which is why she was going to sacrifice herself. But when coldwell admitted that she was wrong, and that the infected children WERE actually alive and not just a slave to the fungus, Melanie realized that if that were true, then they deserved to live just as much as the older humans did. She realized that only one of them would inherit the world and the other would die, and for once she wanted to live.

You should totally do an entire other review on only the book. It's so different sand there's so much more you could expand on.

The plot reminds me of that webtoon "my daughter is a zombie" Were a dad tries to train his zombie daughter into becoming human again without attacking anyone

The kids were like: “GO BACK I WANT TO BE MONKE”

I'm his is legitimately one of the best movies I've seen in the past couple of years, and I try to recommend it to everyone I know... none of which had already seen it.... Anyway... I'm glad you watched it. Haven't started the video just yet, but I'm excited to hear what you have to say about it!

I still wonder why zombies do not attack each other. It’s not like the fungus would evolve to make other infected produce any new smells or something, considering parasites do not really care about our meat suits.

I just noticed that when the doctor gasped at the dead baby the infected person looked at them like "i have found you", it's just the way the infected looked at the doctor, it looked like the face where when you get excited and your face lights up

The whole movie is a snickers commercial “you’re not you when you’re hungry”

People trying to save someone from becoming a cure or whatever pisses me off, people need to learn that the greater good, is a thing.

"reminds me of that kid in high school that growled at people, please don't be that person" Me: I knew a kid that did that, the first time he did that to me, I gave him a hard right hook and he never done it again 😂

Pretty sure armored vehicle manufacturers know to hide the fuel line away to avoid that exact problem

The whole movie falls apart when the zombies manage to topple the fence. The walking dead tactics of walking the fence and stabbing anything that has gathered there to death is technically flawless.

Okay, no part of that movie was as scary as the statement that another two species have officially entered the stone age.

Inactive fungal spores can last up to 50 years, so any adult in a bunker would never see the light of day again. This might be the most bleak zombie apocalypse scenario out there.

Totally not me watching this in between finals

The hells with that doctor? I'm cool to slice a kid open but "oh God a rat"? What did she think was gunna be under there?

When this fungus jumps to humans I hope I am dead

Never surprises me when a character sacrifices possibly the only chance of humanity surviving for an infected kid

Can we get the killer clowns from outer space biology please

I clicked this notification by accident but I’m glad I did

One thing that has always annoyed me. Why only have 1 or 2 fences. I’d have as many as possible with as much in between like barbed wire and all that at every military camp round.

That zombie woman at 19:31 looks like shes livin' the life

haha fungus girl Im very sleep deprived

Ill take C. always have the shutters down, I mean who has breakable glass windows in your lab with zombies, at least put hardened glass or bars on the windows :)

Would love to see a part 2. The movie was amazing going a different direction as just zombies. The ending was great showing that we are just dust in the wind.

The slow occasionally Last of Us theme in the back was perfect btw

I suppose what makes Melanie "special" is her obsession with her teacher, and the teachers response to it. This need for Miss Justineaus approval and affect, motivates Melanie to excel among the other experimental subjects and drives her to try to recreate her classroom experience among the London children.

Cats and dogs actually sweat, not as much as humans but they still have sweat glands that are mostly on their paw beans

I'm now imagining a crow or parrot mimicking human sounds just because they find the infected funny.

I actually read this book in 9th grade, and I was not disappointed by all the plot in it. Hats off to you for reviewing it!

My favorite part of this video? When he said the thing about how suppressors are not quiet and still can cause deafness. Very rarely does someone mention that!