Director Kiah Roache-Turner
Starring Jay Gallagher, Bianca Bradey, Leon Burchill
Rated MA
Score 5/6

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.

Those of you who have read my reviews in the past would have realized that I’m a fan of Australian movies and might that I have a tendency to be overly gushing about Australian movies. Well with Wyrmwood any gushing is completely justified.
I saw nothing of a trailer at the friendly neighborhood cinema and knew nothing of the movie’s Indiegogo funding campaign and it should be noted that a sequel to Wyrmwood has been announced. Fans of Mad Max and of the Evil Dead movies should enjoy this one. I was also impressed with the fact the Zombies in Wyrmwood weren’t the typical shambling zombies that some of us might have grown up with and that the Roache-Turner brothers I was unfamiliar with the entire cast of Wyrmwood though I was particularly impressed with Keith Agius’s performance his character had touch of Dick Strawbridge to it. While Berynn Schwerdt brought a level of creepy to KC and the Sunshine Band’s Get down tonight that I did not know that had existed. Also while watching it I remember thinking how bloated the Resident Evil franchise had gotten bloated and the later films in the franchise to be of questionable quality so it is good to see that a franchise could be established to pick up the slack that has been this faltering film franchise.