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Title : Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead [Blu-ray]
Category: Movies
Brand: Shout! Factory
Item Page Download URL : Download MOVIE File
Rating : 3.9
Buyer Review : 90

Description :

In the aftermath of a comet breaking up over Earth, most of the planet's population quickly succumbs to a strange disease which turns them into "zombies. ", Few survive, and those who do, quickly discover all existing fuel sources have been rendered useless by the plague.


Trapped in a wilderness teeming with living dead, one of the survivors, Barry, has lost everything except his sister, Brooke. But even as the disaster unfolds, Brooke is kidnapped and dragged to a terrifying medical lab run by a psychotic "doctor", who is performing a series of deranged experiments on plague survivors. As Brooke struggles to devise an escape plan, she realizes that the doctor’s experiments have given her strange powers over his zombie captives. Unaware of his sister’s new powers, Barry teams up with fellow survivors to rescue her and protect what family he has left.


With a healthy dose of Mad Max-inspired vehicular mayhem and an enormous serving of pure, raw talent, this raucous post-apocalyptic epic is one of the most original and wildly entertaining genre films in years!

Special Features Include:

-Audio commentary with the Roache-Turner Brothers
-The Wyrmdiaries: Behind the Scenes of WYRMWOOD featurette
-Crowdfunding Videos: Wyrmwood Production Pitch
-Deleted Scenes
-Seven minute teaser scene
-Storyboards by the Director
-Theatrical Trailer

Review :
Rare zombie movie that just wants to have fun
Full disclosure up front--I'm beyond the point of being sick of zombies. I'm sick to death of zombie movies and stopped watching The Walking Dead when The Governor was still alive. So the prospect of watching this new Australian zombie flick definitely did not fill me with anticipation. I honestly figured I would end up watching 15 minutes or so of Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead, discover that it was exactly like all of the other zombie films I've already seen and then turn it off. Happily I was wrong.

The most immediate difference between Wyrmwood and most other zombie movies is that the makers are going for a tone closer to early Peter Jackson than George Romero, which gives it a very different flavor. After introductory scenes that suggest Wyrmwood will be a fairly grim and dull traditional zombie movie it shifts gears, revealing a far more playful approach to the genre.

Wyrmwood isn't as funny as Bad Taste or Dead Alive and it also isn't a straight up zombie...
Australian Zombies Rock!

This Australian Zombie film was fun and entertaining from start to finish.There were Characters that we as the viewer cared about and rooted for.The effects were really good but not silly and over the top like a "Dead Snow" type film.Which made it more serious although there was some comic relief from time to time.

The use of color in the film was done brilliantly sometimes using exaggerated hues of red, blue and orange. There's even some zombie torture porn thrown in. Any kind of gas has become useless so our main characters find out the zombies blood is not only toxic and flammable but works as a replacement for gas/petrol as well.

All of the acting was amazing but "Bianca Bradey" as Brooke was in my opinion the stand out.
This was a unique Zombie film while still maintaining the mainstays we as genre lovers have come to love.

Believe the Good Reviews - There's Originality in this Entertaining Aussie Zombie Ride.
The reviews are real... albeit adjust your expectations to the Indie film style. I've got a long history with zombie/undead flicks...it began with Romero's masterpiece. I'm neither a gore hound, nor a zombie fanatic, but I do appreciate solid makeup and well executed CGI effects. Wyrmwood is an entertaining low-budget ride, a bit heavy on the gore, but those scenes balance within the confines of the world that's depicted. Maybe the outfits do harken back to Mad Max, and maybe the Aussie humor and straight talking characters provide a relief to the horror they are trying to manage. Either way, this effort is a vast improvement over some of the recent vintage zombie flops, but it's also not quite Hollywood.

The plot is not complex, and the characters' actions seem like what any of us might do - to a point. What I liked most was the originality. Yep, for the zombie genre that's a tall order. And these folks delivered... not big budget stuff, but good enough. The mundane story...