Maggie (2015)

Plot of Maggie: In the present day in Midwest America the population is being decimated by a zombie infection, where if people are bitten they will over time deteriorate until they become mindless killers unless stopped. Wade Vogel’s daughter has been bitten and is in a city hospital dealing with the infected. The father goes and rescues her, but once in the home environment he is constantly pressured to send her to a quarantine centre. She is seen to be getting worse, her eyes change and on breaking a finger cuts it off, with a resulting ooze of dark liquid. Wade also meets a neighbour and his daughter in the woods, both having become zombies, and kills them with an axe. His second wife sends their children away, and eventually leaves him. There seems to be no possible good outcome, so what can he do?

Content: No sex, nudity, drinking or drug taking. One kiss between infected young people. Wade drives through a devastated landscape in an old truck to find his daughter in hospital. They visit a petrol station where he fills up with petrol, and is attacked by a zombie who he kills. Maggie takes some sunglasses. They live in an isolated farmhouse where Wade often chops wood. Father and daughter spend time together. Out in the woods he kills a neighbour and daughter who have turned. Maggie gets worse, and alarmingly cuts off her own finger. Black goo oozes.

A View: Everyone seems to have been surprised that Arnie did not do a bad job of staring into the middle distance thoughtfully a lot, but he did. The film is mostly watchable, but in my view is let down by the script which has resulted in me only giving it 3/10. In order of things which I find important script comes first so watch it at your peril.

Fun Fact: Arnie did this job for nothing – not even scale – because he liked the script.