Wyrmwood - Road Of The Dead

Last year in june i married to my beautiful and wonderful wife. It was a lovely wedding, with great food , nice live music, and funny guests. Even the cake was wonderful. But there was one thing missing, and that was a zombie apocalypse. I would love to see my wife with a chainsaw, splitting zombies in half, while my sister Isabelle uses a shotgun and blow their heads into pieces, sounds like a wonderful day indeed. Because honestly, where would we not want a zombie apocalypse ? Christmas day ? New Years Eve ? Exactly, every big holiday would be a joy for families to wipe out zombies. I have always been a zombie lover ( don´t get me wrong, i don´t make love to zombies....i promise ), and love to see different zombie films coming out. Some of them may not be very good, i just check them out anyway, but sometimes we do get surprises. Overall, i can´t Think of many things in Life more Beautiful than flesh eating zombies, it feels like a nice hot summer vacation at the beach in Greece, like you never want to leave. Zombie invasions have been very popular since AMC released their tv show The Walking Dead, and there is a reason for that. This is one of the best tv shows ever made. When it comes to zombie films, lately there have not been many titles that felt interesting. Until i saw the trailer of the new australian horror film Wyrmwood. It actually looked like a fun ride. Australian horror films have proved themselves to have delivered some good ones, especially The Babadook not so long ago. Wolf Creek 2 was also fun, just because it was all about a local bushman butcher, trying to make sure that he take care of stupid tourists. Plenty of meals can be made, and who does not like a hot meal served ? A zombie invasion in the Australian landscape sounds like a wonderful idea, so i just had to check this one out to see if Wyrmwood had something for us zombie fans. Is Wyrmwood another proof that Australia makes great horror films, or should they have stayed out of the zombie genre instead ?

A meteor shower occur all over Australia one night. Suddenly zombies begin walking everywhere. During a photo session in a studio in Bulla Bulla, photographer Brooke ( Bianca Bradey ) is taking pictures at her model, with the help of her assistant. Suddenly the model falls on the ground, and have become infected. She attack the assistant, and now Brooke have to survive, stuck inside the studio with 2 flesh hungry zombies. Meanwhile, Brooke´s brother Barry ( Jay Gallagher ), is informed with the situation what is going on. He take his wife Annie ( Catherine Terracini ) and their daughter Meganne ( Meganne West )  out to the countryside. Unfortunately, buth Meganne and Annie have been infected, as they also turn into zombies, Barry have no other choice than to kill them both. As he does, he tries to kill himself, but with no luck. Suddenly another survivor shows up, Chalker ( Yure Covich ), who suggest they help each other out. Barry attack Chalker, but is knocked out. He wakes up later in Chalker´s truck. Barry attacks him again, but finally realise that they chance to survive is bigger if they help each other. When the dies, in the middle of the road, they have no other choice than to walk along the forest. Suddenly Chalker is killed with a head shot. Another survivor, Benny ( Leon Burchill ) shot him by mistake, thinking he was a zombie. Barry suggest they continue to walk, to find a secure loctaion. They find a garage, where armed people seems to have both weapons, armery, and a car. They all decide to help each other, to escape and find a better place. Barry is determined to find his sister, even if his life could end.

Hell Yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wyrmwood - Road Of The Dead is a zombie feast with so much to give us, i don´t know where to start. This is a combination of Mad Max, Evil Dead and the early films of Peter Jackson. The tempo is incredible fast, and there is so much action, you might get orgasm....im serious. The best part is that all zombies are no CGI, every single one is made out of make up and hand made details. So you can tell they spend a lot of time trying to make it look good. The budget may not be the biggest but i honestly don´t care. This is such a fun ride, with so many crazy killings and funny moments, i feel like dancing all over Skönsbergs Centrum. Some of the characters are really cool, especially the maniac known as The Doc, reminds me of the insane scientist in Re-Animator. Director Kiah Roache-Turner proves himself to be a very talented director, in this debut feature film, and i am shocked how good he is to find different details that i have never seen before. Imagine using a zombies blood as fuel, have we ever seen that before ? I doubt it, this is a brilliant idea. Once you find your way into the crazy situation, you will realise why we all love this genre so much. Everything is insane, with lots of violence, exploding heads, creepy sound effects and of course really cool characters. Will this be hated by Jehovas Witnesses ? Yes, of course. That is one of the reasons why you should watch Wyrmwood, to make sure Jehovas will never be let out on the streets. There may not be a lot of original ideas here, but the strength of this film is the combination of australian comedy, and the intensive action scenes, that work so well combined. There is so much violence, and blood, that if you are a fan of old school classics, you will definetely have a great time watching this. Usually acting can be a problem in B films, but here i feel that both Jay Gallagher and Leon Burchill does a good job with their characters. Remember i mentioned The Doc earlier ? Berynn Schwerdt does a really good performance as this insane doctor, who does not seem to have any limits at all. Wyrmwood is a blast, delivering one of the funniest zombie action movies in a long time. If you love this genre, i suggest you buy this one, to support quality films. Now excuse me, i just need to fire my harpoon gun, these damn zombies have taken over our laundry room, can´t they leave anything alone ?

Rating: DDDD