Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead

2014 "Mad Max meets Dawn Of The Dead"
6.2| 1h38m| R| en
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Barry is a talented mechanic and family man whose life is torn apart on the eve of a zombie apocalypse. His sister, Brooke, is kidnapped by a sinister team of gas-mask wearing soldiers & experimented on by a psychotic doctor. While Brooke plans her escape Barry goes out on the road to find her & teams up with Benny, a fellow survivor - together they must arm themselves and prepare to battle their way through hordes of flesh-eating monsters in a harsh Australian bushland.

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Also starring Leon Burchill

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VeteranLight I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.
Portia Hilton Blistering performances.
Lachlan Coulson This is a gorgeous movie made by a gorgeous spirit.
Mandeep Tyson The acting in this movie is really good.
dakotaleon This may have been one of if not the best "B list" movies I've ever seen! The plot twist was unexpected but fit so well and i can't wait for the series to come out
Nigel P A group of heavily armoured folk pounce from a vehicle into the path of a group of marauding zombies. The first line of dialogue we hear is, "Come on, you f***ing dummy!" And then, bedlam. A plethora of gunfire, cascading streams of blood, a dash of gore, and many of the walking-dead become quite simply, dead-dead. It isn't a bad start, and lets you know exactly what film experience you are in for.Sometimes it's good to sit back and watch a group of muscle-brained heroes blowing bloody chunks out of a relentless horde of zombies. Except this Australian rollercoaster has an eccentricity that makes it a richer experience than that. There is a thin vein of black humour running through, not entirely unreminiscent of Peter Jackson's 1992 'Braindead'. Here, the grotesque comedy doesn't get as much of a hold and we are left with a desperate chase through a country suddenly teeming with gas-breathing living cadavers that enjoys moments of madness.If you are in the mood for this, it delivers in spades. If not, it might come across as a group of characters whose dialogue consists of 'what the f*** is this,' and 'what the f*** is that?' The occasionally unconventional plot concerns Brooke (Bianca Bradley) who narrowly escapes being devoured by a group of newly formed zombies before being 'rescued' by a military group that takes her for experimentation every bit as deadly as her original predicament. Her brother Barry (Jay Gallagher), who has recently ended the lives of his zombie wife and daughter, teams up with a handful of similarly scarred characters, and proceeds to find Brooke and shoot as many marauding, slavering, dead-eyed 'infected' as possible.'Wyrmwood' is twisted, fast-moving, brutal, bloody and the effects are very convincing. And it's an enjoyable rollercoaster.
zardoz-13 Writer & director Kiah Roache-Turner's horror shocker "Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead" lives up to Empire Magazine's description: "Mad Max Meets Dawn of the Dead." Roache-Turner and his brother Tristan co-wrote this atmospheric, adrenalin-laced, larger-than-life, high-octane hokum that wallows in blood, gore, and more during its lean, mean 98 minutes and keeps you poised on the edge of your seat. Roache-Turner must have seen the entire "Mad Max" franchise because this movie puts on the brakes only occasionally with its slam-bang, self-propelled depiction of the survivors of a zombie holocaust who have almost as much to worry about from the government as they do the zombies infesting the countryside around them. "Wyrmwood" differs from the usual zombie movie because the Roache-Turner brothers have added a wrinkle or two to the genre. The zombies here breath a gaseous haze that enables the humans to use them as a source of energy to fuel their vehicles. Apparently, since life on Earth has taken a turn for the very worst, fossil fuels can no longer make conventional vehicles run. Presumably, everything started one night with lots of falling stars. The filmmakers are never elaborate about all the details that contribute to this confluence of dire events. Furthermore, the heroine of this incredibly entertaining nonsense, becomes a pin-cushion for unethical government experiments, and she mutates into somebody who can exert mind control over zombies and compel them to carry out her commands. "Wyrmwood" also lives up to its road picture origins, too. Roache-Turner delivers some dizzy camera work of cars careening down narrow, two-lane roads through the woods to escape zombies. The sound design bolsters the effect since every time that you see a zombie, it is shrieking like a gutted sow and running in slow-motion. You may seen many zombie movies and have the formula down pat, but "Wyrmwood" tweaks the formula for superb effect. The upgrades that Kiah Roache-Turner delivers makes this light years better than anything "The Walking Dead" has done during its many seasons.Barry (Jay Gallagher) gets up one night when his tweener daughter Meganne (Meganne West) informs him that an intruder is in their kitchen. Barry walks in on the zombie and a life & death fight ensues with the zombie pinning Barry to the floor. Barry's wife Annie (Catherine Terracini) stabs the zombie in the back with a knife but to no effect and then sinks an ax in the thing's spine. Managing to escape from the zombie's death grip, Barry wretches the ax out of his back and lops off the zombie's head. Barry remembers that his sister Brooke (Bianca Bradey) had called him from a nearby town and warned him about the infestation and pleads for him to come rescue her. On the way to the town of Bulla Bulla, Barry's wife and daughter turn into zombies, and he kills them with a nail gun. Afterward, he tries to kill himself with his own nail gun, but he has exhausted his supply of nails. Eventually, Barry hooks up with a garage load of blokes, and they burst out of confinement, running down zombies, and tear off down the road. "Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead" takes zombie movies to another level.
dr-dettt Honestly speaking i didn't even knew the names of the cast or makers of This movie until i watched it.i mean i have never seen them in other movie Nor heard of them.came across this movie while looking for a good thriller For my weekend.for the first 10 minutes i thought its another cheap flick With a curios poster..but boy did it surprise me!!!it just keep on getting Better and better.it started as a routine zombie flick and metamorphosed Into a good one with very good changes from a routine one. The actors are good and everyone played their part to perfection. This could have used some more budget.but nonetheless its a good Zombie adventure you can enjoy.and it has got a few surprises that distinguish It from routine flick