Director Henry Hobson
Starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Abigail Breslin, Joely Richardson
Rated M
Score 4/6

A teenage girl in the Midwest becomes infected by an outbreak of a disease that slowly turns the infected into cannibalistic zombies. During her transformation, her loving father stays by her side.

Going into this I was completely unfamiliar with director Henry Hobson’s work, but that was forgivable considering that Maggie was debut feature film as a director, up until now the only other work Hobson has had within the film industry was to do with title design for various television series and movies. The closet that Hobson has come to being an actual director was as director for the original & adapted screenplay segments of the The 84th Annual Academy Awards and the trailer director for Resistance 3. So after watching Maggie and with very little directing credits to his name I see Hobson as being an unknown quantity.
As Zombie movies I got the overall impression Maggie was completely different to any other zombie movie that I have ever seen. There was no ‘OWW!! …. Where is my spleen?’ scenes and more of an effort by the filmmakers to look at the emotional baggage of dealing with a family member who was turning into a zombie.
I liked the slant the filmmakers took with the plot and Abigail Breslin gave a decent enough performance, though there is a large part of me has to question the casting of Arnold Schwarzenegger especially considering the lack of action sequences that I would usually associate with him.