Not a zombie flick...

Most movies aren't just one thing.

I think the movie was multilayered in its themes. First, it dealt with the love within the family and between friends. Second, it was about a teenager having to cope with her terminal disease and impending death. Lastly, the "zombie" part was used to show man's humanity fighting his more basic animal instincts. The last scene was among the most poignant in the film. Because of her disease, Maggie was suffering from physical deterioration and decay, and eventually would be turning into a "zombie" or animal - at which point she would have lost her humanity and just wanted to "bite", treating other people as food. In the physical sense that was inevitable. But Maggie's humanity and love for her father won at the end. At the last moment, she kissed her father and then jumped off the roof, ending her own life rather than risking possible harm to him and the others.

Why can't it be both? 😂

The might of Elrond is in wisdom not in weapons, it is said.

It is a Zombie movie just not of the typical kind.