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facility . Melanie is part zombie - known as a ‘ hungry ’ here - meaning she behaves like a perfectly normal child until she smells human flesh , at which point she turns into a Rottweiler . The children attend a class taught by teacher Helen Justineau ( Gemma Arterton ), but each day the class size shrinks by one , as the children are dissected for experiment by Dr . Caroline Caldwell ( Gemma Close ), who believes she is close to finding a solution to the zombification

issue . On the day it ’ s Melanie ’ s turn to be chopped up and studied , the facility comes under attack by a horde of the undead , and a small band of survivors - Melanie , Helen , Caroline and soldiers Eddie ( Paddy Considine ) and Kieran ( Fisayo Akinade ) - hits the road in search of fellow survivors . Save for some evocations of classic British sci-fi horror movies like Joseph Losey ’ s These Are the Damned ( children subjected to experiments ) and Steve Seke-

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