I felt close to the characters, loved the flashbacks used to tell their back stories, and really felt good about this pick. Worth the time and effort for something that is more than just a few folks in rough makeup getting their heads blown off. I love movies set in Australia, and this one did not dissapoint. A talented mechanic prepares to battle his way through hordes of flesh-eating monsters after his sister is kidnapped on the eve of a zombie apocalypse. With Jay Gallagher, Bianca Bradey, Leon Burchill, Keith Agius. I would say that this movie, Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead, was an all around fun zombie romp through the Outback. Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead: Directed by Kiah Roache-Turner. There is also a mad scientist doing weird experiments, crazy para-military guys, lots of zombies, and some pretty cool special effects. All fuel has become inert, and the only thing that works to run vehicles is the breath of the zombies. The plot is fairly simple, but there is an awesome twist that is very reminiscent of something from the Mad Max series. Desperate to save his sister, Brooke, he meets up with a group of guys who all work together to get him where he needs to go. When he decides to kill himself… *click*, no more nails.
A family man whose daughter and wife both become zombies, he is forced to shoot them in the head with a nail gun. The girl in costume become a zombie and some crazy acrobatics ensue as Brooke and her other friend fight for their lives.īarry is our third main character, and sort of our hero type in this movie. Brooke is a photographer, and her and a couple of friends are doing some weird artsy type of photo shoot, with one girl chained up and painted in a death mask/candy skull type motif with some cool black light effects. Next, we meet Brooke, played by Bianca Bradey. Benny is a great character and plays a strong role as the films comedy relief. He finds one brother dead and the other turned into a zombie.
He is out with his brothers for a camping/hunting expedition, and in the morning, they are gone. We are introduced to three main characters in this film, beginning with Benny, a stout man with a very aboriginal look to him.
The big difference in Wyrmwood is the treatment of the main characters. Meteors fall from the sky and the next day people become ravenous monsters hungry for human flesh.
I picked Wormwood: Road of the Dead, a zombie apocalypse movie set in the best location ever, Australia.ĭirected by Kiah Roache-Turner and produced by Tristan Roache-Turner, Wyrmwood:Road of the Dead focuses on a very familiar premise, at least to those that have seen the classic Night of the Living Dead. I had to pick out something to watch, and I was in the mood for a crazy zombie movie. It's not in the class of Shaun of the Dead but this labour of love (four years in the making for film-maker brothers Kiah and Tristan Roache-Turner) is inventive DIY horror that harks back to Ozploitation's golden era.I had some time to sit and watch Netflix this last week. Add in dollops of mordant Aussie humour - keeping zombies on ice in the same place as the beers - and the spirit of Mad Max, The Evil Dead and Peter Jackson's Braindead, and you have a tidy little package of tension, terror and tongue-in-cheek fun.
But the outback-set tale of an everyman mechanic (Jay Gallagher) on a quest to find his sister (Bianca Bradey) takes some off-the-wall detours, particularly when she's abducted by a troop of masked paramilitaries commanded by a disco-dancing mad scientist with experiments to conduct. All the usual undead ingredients are on the menu - hordes of slavering flesh-eaters, lashings of splatter and a brutal battle for survival. Don't be put off by the title - this energetic antipodean spin on the zombie apocalypse has much to recommend it.