8 Smartest Decisions In Zombie Movie History
6. Taking Matters Into Her Own Hands - Maggie
Few zombie movies are quite as heartbreaking as Maggie. Again offering something rather different to the norm of masses of the undead being sliced and splattered for 90 minutes, Maggie serves as somewhat of a minimalist character study on what somebody goes through in the days and weeks after being bitten by a zombie.
Setting the table for the film, Abigail Breslin plays the titular Maggie, a young girl who is in the process of slowly turning into a flesh-craving zombie. Alongside her, we have Arnold Schwarzenegger in the most poignant role of his career as Maggie's widowed father.
Managing to convince the authorities to let Maggie remain at home rather than be quarantined until her inevitable 'turn', Arnold's Wade accepts the heartbreaking reality that he himself will have to take on the responsibility of eventually killing his beloved daughter in order for her to be allowed to see her final days out at the family home.
Rarely has a zombie movie been so emotional, as we see both Wade and Maggie struggle with their own inevitabilities. While it wasn't a wise decision that necessarily saved the day so that all could live happy ever after, a decreasingly human Maggie manages to muster up enough self-control to give her sleeping father one last kiss before throwing herself off her roof and to her death - saving her troubled father from having to do something that he would never, ever recover from.