Thursday, October 14, 2021

Scare-a-Thon 2021 Day 14: Maggie (2015)

  More zombies!  This one is much more of a meditation on AIDS than previous entries.

Wade (Arnold Schwarzenegger) decides to bring his infected daughter, Maggie (Abigail Breslin), home instead of taking her to a government quarantine to live out her last days before becoming a zombie.  In this universe, the Necroambulism virus takes 6-8 weeks after initial infection to claim a victim.  It's only contagious through a bite so the infected are harmless until the final stage where they get all murder-y.  

Action icon Schwarzenegger, Academy Award nominee Breslin, and acting dynasty legacy Joely Richardson make this the most prestigious cast for a zombie movie you'll probably ever see.  Like I said, it's more of an extended AIDS metaphor than a horror movie.  If you're not really a big horror fan, this might be more your speed.  There's very little violence and not a lot of gore.  It's currently streaming on Kanopy.

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