Wyrmwood: road of the dead (2014)
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All the while, Barry - after losing his wife and daughter to the illness - teams up with fellow survivors Benny (Leon Burchill) and Frank (Keith Agius), determined to race across the Australian outback in an effort to rescue Brooke and protect the little family he has left.
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But as tragedy unfolds, Brooke is kidnapped by a gang of paramilitary thugs and dragged away, imprisoned by a psychotic ‘doctor’ who subjects her to a series of deranged experiments.
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Barry’s normal life is turned upside-down when the mechanic gets a frantic late-night phone call from his sister, Brooke, after one of her models turns demonic while working on a night-time photography shoot. In the aftermath of a comet breaking up over the Earth, Wyrmwood essentially follows two protagonists, Barry (Jay Gallagher) and his sister Brooke (Bianca Bradey), in their struggle to endure a post-apocalyptic nightmare as the planet’s population succumbs to a strange sickness, which turns almost everyone into zombies. A third of the world turned bitter, and many people died,’ loosely explained in the picture’s second act. This energetically paced feature gets its bizarre title from Revelations verse 8:10-11, which states: ‘ … and a great star, blazing like a torch, fell from the sky … and the name of the star is Wormwood. The debut feature film from Australia’s Roache-Turner brothers, Kiah - billed as writer/ director - and Tristan - credited as writer/ producer and production designer - Wyrmwood is only able to grace the screen thanks to the brother’s commitment and dedication, along with the aid of a loyal bunch of IndieGogo backers who helped fund the passion project a bold mash-up of car chases, bloody violence and crazy homemade weaponry. Best described as ‘ Mad Max meets Dawn of the Dead,’ Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead is an interesting Australian take on the tired sub-genre of the zombie apocalypse.