- Nausea Fuel: It was the type of book you couldn't put down, but God were the moments when you wanted to just chuck the thing at the wall. Any of the scenes involving corpses was enough.
- Never Live It Down: The majority of the comments on this film's Letterboxd revolve around Daisy having a romantic and sexual relationship with her own cousin, not helped by the fact that, even disregarding them being related, their relationship is incredibly forced and at times seems to take higher priority to Daisy over the children.
- Nightmare Fuel: The fates of The Major and the guy from the orchard.
- Parts of the film are very uncomfortable to watch, particularly Daisy finding and searching the corpses at Gatesfield.
- Retroactive Recognition: Nowadays, Daisy's nerdy cousin Isaac will look awfully familiar to many a mainstream viewer wanting to catch up with the film, as he was played by Tom Holland, just three years before he started playing Spider-Man in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
- The Scrappy: Despite most audience members agreeing Saoirse Ronan still turned in a good performance, Daisy as a character has been heavily criticized by audience members for her incredibly bitchy attitude and foul mouth that extends even towards her youngest cousins, grating wangsty narration, and most of all, her incestuous relationship with her own cousin. Not helped at all by the fact this serves as her primary motivation for making her way back home amidst the apocalypse rather than ensuring the children's safety, which makes her come across as selfish AND creepy.
- Strangled by the Red String: In the film Edmond and Daisy's relationship just happens, and all of a sudden Edmond is just the one, period.
- The Woobie: Almost everyone, really.
- Iron Woobie: Piper - in the book, at least - although she does crack once or twice.
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