The camera mainly follows around Barry as he tries to save his family and figure out where his sister disappeared to and the Turners seize every opportunity to give the viewer the maximum amount of zombie carnage and gore they possibly can. Is he trying to find a cure? Is he trying to isolate whatever it is that’s infecting everyone? We don’t know and really, who cares!! The fun here is in the journey. We’re never even told the reason why the doctor is experimenting on non-infected humans. Romero’s Dead Trilogy never gives us a concrete cause and that’s part of the charm and attraction of those films. I’m sick of zombie films feeling the need to explain every “why” in a zombie film. What writers Kiah Roache-Turner and Tristan Roache-Turner (Kiah also directed) do with that “smoke” is great!! We’re never told the exact cause of the outbreak and only know the meteors have something to do with it. When they scream we can see a kind of vapor or smoke-like substance drifting out of their mouths. The zombies emit high-pitched screams and are fast as shit. What’s really exciting about WYRMWOOD is that is takes the common “zombie outbreak” scenario and really injects a lot of new ideas and life into it. All the various characters and subplots come together in a pretty damn exciting and gory finale. She wakes up in a small, makeshift lab run by a doctor (Berynn Schwerdt) who likes huffing chemicals and experimenting on innocent people.Īlong the way, Barry and Benny run across a few other survivors and Barry, a talented and resourceful mechanic, puts his skills to work to make some inventive weapons and vehicles. But these military guys are about as trustworthy and reliable as Rhodes, Steel, and Rickles are in DAY OF THE DEAD!! The soldiers, covered head to toe in protective gear, take a sample of Brooke’s blood and when they clear her they knock her out. Brooke was attacked in her photography studio during a shoot and was rescued by the military. They form an unlikely alliance and continue on as Barry tries to find out if his sister Brooke (Bianca Bradey) is still alive. Barry’s been on the road trying to get away from the populated city when he and Benny’s paths cross. Fighting for his life, Benny escapes the hungry and very fast dead long enough to meet up with Barry (Jay Gallagher). Benny ( Leon Burchill) is hunting in the bushland with his brothers Mulla (Alfred Coolwell) and Tony (Damion Hunter) when the meteors fall and bad things start to happen almost immediately.
The film takes place in Australia (it was filmed in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia) and everything goes wrong one night when hundreds of meteors rain down on the country. If you took Romero’s DAWN OF THE DEAD and injected it with the energy of DEAD ALIVE and then MAD MAX’ed the entire thing, you’d end up with WYRMWOOD. What we get here is a ton of zombie action, zombie violence, and all around zombie mayhem. There’s no social commentary, the zombies aren’t metaphors for something else, and there’s no whiney, self-reflective characters. It’s a zombie film strained through a MAD MAX filter and it completely works. You could do far worse for a boozy Friday night out.This is the kind of zombie film I live for!! WYRMWOOD: ROAD OF THE DEAD is exactly what the title teases. But it’s put together with wit and gusto, solidly scripted and convincingly acted, with a neat line in quick-cut, slam-bang action. All of which makes life hell for hulking hero Barry (Jay Gallagher), who’s on a last-ditch mission to save his sister (Bianca Bradey) after she’s kidnapped by mysterious government forces.ĭespite the fast-and-loose approach to zombie folklore, there’s nothing massively original here – limbs fly, blood spurts and both zombies and humans are despatched in a variety of moderately inventive, generally disgusting ways.
So their zombies don’t just shamble, grunt and feast on flesh, they also have flammable blood, methane-gas breath and psychokinetic powers. Their efforts have paid off – ‘Wyrmwood’ played to whooping home crowds, and has the dubious distinction of being Australia’s most pirated film of 2015.įully aware that even horror fans are approaching peak zombie – and that their production budget could never match TV’s ‘The Walking Dead’ – writer-director brothers Tristan and Kiah Roache-Turner have opted for the time-honoured ‘chuck everything at the wall and see what sticks’ method of splatter filmmaking. Taking inspiration from DIY upstarts like Peter Jackson and Robert Rodriguez, the makers of this sparky, efficient slice of zombiefied Aussie exploitation shot their film over months of weekends, utilising friends as cheap labour and undead extras.
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