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.

Nigsley I hadn't heard of this film when I watched it so had no expectations, but I'm glad I gave it a go as the cast and director have delivered a real treat.This is the story of Barry and his sister Brooke, battling Zombies and the military in the Australian Bush.It was only at the end I realised I had no real idea of why the zombies had arrived or why the military were acting the way they were, but this lack of exposition actually made the film a more enjoyable experience, leaving me to enjoy the visuals all the more.And for me the look and feel of this film is what makes it a cut above most other low budget zombie films out there.It owes a lot to mad Max in feel, but manages to be it's own story.One of my pet hates in Zombie films is wooden acting,but here the cast really deliver. I liked the lead characters and wanted to know more.I'm not a fan of CGI effects when you can notice them and that was the case here with some of the blood but that is just a small thing and may have been down to budget and timeAll in all though this was a fun ride and I do hope we I get to see more of Barry and Brooke.

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.

Paul Magne Haakonsen I purchased this movie solely because it is a zombie movie, and I had no prior knowledge about what it was about or if it was any good or not. But I had good memories from the last couple of Australian zombie movies that I have watched.Now having seen "Wyrmwood", I will say that it was entertaining and a rather unique movie in its own way. It was, as the director and producer said, a mix between "Mad Max" and "Dawn of the Dead". However, while "Wyrmwood" is entertaining, it wasn't a movie that will stand out as particularly memorable amongst the movies in the zombie genre.Personally I didn't appreciate the thing about the woman being able to control the zombies. It was just too stupid in my opinion. And I am not overly much a fan of fast, agile, running zombies.The acting in "Wyrmwood" was good for a movie of this type, and that helped the movie along quite nicely.And while this is a zombie movie, then zombies and the zombie make-up is a thing that can't fail or be slacked upon. And the movie-makers didn't fail here. The zombies were abundant and had adequate make-up. And there was also a fair amount of blood and gore - for the gorehounds out there.If you enjoy zombie movies that doesn't follow the generic and arch-typical formula, then chances are that you will get a lot of enjoyment from "Wyrmwood".