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!