Australian zombie flick Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead may seem like your standard post-apocalyptic zombie film, but this trailer is telling us that it’s something much more than that. Made possible by the wonders of crowd-funding, the film is the debut feature from Australia’s Roache-Turner brothers: Kiah (writer-director) and Tristan (writer-producer-production designer), and is quite clearly inspired by classics like Mad Max and Evil Dead.
The film did it’s rounds in 2014 film festivals around the world, gaining some major acclaim off the back of it’s originality and consistency. Australian cinemas will get to experience a release for one night only, as Studiocanal hosts one-off screenings nationwide on Friday 13th February, after which fans are encouraged to push for more screenings on Fan-Force.com (or even host their own).
Wyrmwood will also premiere at Moonlight Cinemas on Friday 6th February in Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, Adelaide, and Brisbane. Tickets are on sale now from www.moonlightcinema.com.au and a zombie dress theme is encouraged.
In the aftermath of a comet breaking up over the Earth, most of the planet’s population succumb to a strange disease which turns them into ‘zombies’. Few survive, and those who do quickly discover all existing fuel sources have been rendered unusable by the plague. Trapped in a wilderness filled with living dead, unable to travel to any safer location, survivors have little to live for. One of those survivors, family man Barry has lost everything except his sister Brooke. But even as the disaster unfolds, Brooke is kidnapped by a gang of paramilitary thugs and dragged away to be imprisoned by a psychotic ‘doctor’ who subjects her to a series of deranged experiments.
As Brooke struggles to devise an escape plan, she slowly comes to realize that the Doctor’s experiments have given her strange powers over the Doctor’s zombie captives. Meanwhile, Barry teams up with fellow survivors Benny, Frank and Kelly, determined to rescue Brooke and protect what family he has left.
Learning as they go, Barry and the others discover the rotting undead breath out a strong methane vapor. Together they build a ‘zombie-proof’, metal-spiked battle-truck which runs on zombie gas. Loaded in the truck and armed with whatever they can find, they ready themselves to fight through hordes of flesh-eating monsters in a harsh Australian bushland in order to reclaim the only thing that matters in this dark apocalypse: family.
Wyrmood: Road of the Dead will screen in Australian cinemas nationally on Friday 13th February for one night only
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