The Doctor is obviously supposed the be a key stylistic element to Wyrmwood. His previous test subjects are now zombies that he keeps strapped to the walls of the confined space he occupies in the back of the “military” unit’s vehicle.
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I’m less than 600 words into this review, so I still don’t feel that I spoiled anything by telling you that Barry kills them.īrooke soon finds herself the prisoner of a deranged doctor who subjects her to a series of mysterious painful injections. The family manages to reach the car and drive away without being bitten, but the contagion is soon revealed to be airborne when Barry’s wife and daughter start to “turn” regardless. That, or Barry is a survivalist who is just readily prepared for the apocalypse because they leave the house wearing gas masks and armed with nail guns and other household tools to use for defense. There must have been some sort of previous outbreak. They dispatch the zombie invader and flee the house. Soon after, a roving military unit arrives, gunning down the zombies and taking Brooke captive.īarry’s daughter alerts he and his wife to a stranger in their kitchen. While she’s up there, she calls her brother and warns him to flee for safety out of the city. The model goes all zombo for no specified reason, forcing Brooke to hide in the rafters while it attacks and kills her photographer. As the film opens, she is air brushing a model into a living Dia de Muertos-themed Monster High doll. The film then returns to before Barry has killed his family to focus on Brooke. His first line of dialogue in the film is him telling us that he shot them with a nailgun that morning. And no, I didn’t spoil anything by revealing that his family is dead. After being forced to kill his zombified family, he sets out to find his missing sister. Barry (Jay Gallagher) is a blue-collar mechanic, as well as husband and father. The film revolves around adult siblings, Barry and Brooke. This was an ideal quote to market the film with as it rode the “heat of the moment” of Mad Max: Fury Road‘s recent release. As the film features quite a bit of driving and a lot of Aussie accents (as well as a few pieces of body armor), some critic made the comment that the film was like “ Mad Max meets Dawn of the Dead“. Wyrmwood comes to us from Australian director Kiah Roache-Turner. Something that is a “hot topic” in the conversations of your now targeted audience. Sometimes you just have to have the faintest semblance to something else that’s “trending”. “ The Walking Deceased“? God love ’em for not even trying. Sometimes you just need to have a name that sounds like another known film/television property.
“ Hey, I didn’t even know Jimmie Walker was still alive!“. Someone who will draw people’s attention, even if that attention comes in the form of morbid curiosity. It takes a lot for a zombie film to get noticed these days. It might not be fair to say that zombie films are now “a dime a dozen”, but as the multitude of bargin bin DVD multi-movie collections found on the shelves of every store from Walmart to Dollar General to even your corner gas station prove, they’re closer to $3 a dozen. With the rise in popularity of the sub-genre stemming from the cultural phenomena that is The Walking Dead, zombie flicks are now being churned out at an unprecedented rate. Once almost exclusively the property of George Romero and more than a handful of Italian guys, zombie flicks have saturated the landscape of horror over the last decade or so. Purchase Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead from Amazon!