![]() ![]() Wyrmwood is at its best when it’s reveling in absurdity, and the idea that zombies can provide an alternate form of gasoline provides some particularly hilarious sequences. Wyrmwood’s screeching, rage-filled zombies, on the other hand, feel more authentic we’re familiar with this modern interpretation, but they do the job with sickening efficiency. There’s a mad scientist who conducts his wacky experiments to screaming pop music, and a group of gas-mask-clad foot soldiers whose ambitions are murky, and ultimately, nonsensical. Wyrmwood’s human baddies are cartoons evil for evil’s sake. Bradey is excellent as the wiley, focused Brooke, whose unique talent provides Wyrmwood with one of its sparks of originality, even if it’s not explored quite as thoroughly as it could have been. Burchill is the highlight as the posturing Benny, although his character gets marginalized to a gag-machine near the end. Gallagher does a lot of grunting and growling as generic tough guy Barry, but also sells the pain of losing his friends and family along the way. It’s a standard set up, but with a larrikin flavour you better believe beer is still an important commodity in the zombie apocalypse.Ĭharacter development isn’t much of a priority for Wyrmwood, but the cast does well with the material they’re given. Joined by fellow survivor Benny (Leon Burchill) as he wanders through rural New South Wales, the pair try to survive both the zombie horde and a sinister group of self-appointed soldiers who have also kidnapped Barry’s sister Brooke (Bianca Bradey). Barry (Jay Gallagher), is a mechanic and family man who quickly learns that the burgeoning zombie apocalypse takes no prisoners. It is shamelessly old-school, and while it eventually runs out of its initial momentum, Wyrmwood is a funny and heartfelt zombie movie that keeps its running time short and its list of survivors even shorter.ĭirecting brothers Kiah and Tristan Roache-Turner have avoided both ultra-grit and total splatstick to pitch Wyrmwood somewhere in between, and it works. ![]() Wyrmwood is a heady mix of make-shift cars, chopped up limbs and gore-soaked True Blue Aussie muscle, which places it somewhere between Mad Max and Peter Jackson’s early splatter movies.
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