{"id":74900,"date":"2015-05-11T01:00:54","date_gmt":"2015-05-11T00:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=74900"},"modified":"2015-05-07T17:52:52","modified_gmt":"2015-05-07T16:52:52","slug":"wyrmwood-road-of-the-dead-blu-ray-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/reviews\/wyrmwood-road-of-the-dead-blu-ray-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Wyrmwood Blu-ray review: full-throttle zombie gem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It might seem that near enough every spin has been put on the zombie movie as is possible to get, but Australian horror-thriller <strong>Wyrmwood<\/strong> successfully takes the sub-genre in a whole new direction.<\/p>\n<p>Little in the way of setup or establishing back story is given: there\u2019s never any reason given for the cause of the outbreak, only that it\u2019s happened, and the world is going to hell.<\/p>\n<p>In among this new world order is a group, containing among their number widowed husband and father Barry (Jay Gallagher) and wise-cracking Indigenous Australian Benny (Leon Burchill), who respond to the zombie apocalypse with typical can-do spirit: by tooling (and armouring) up, and heading off to Bulla Bulla to rescue Barry\u2019s sister Brooke (Bianca Bradley), who is being terrorised by a disco-loving mad doctor, known simply as \u2018The Doctor\u2019 (Berryn Schwerdt).<\/p>\n<p>Despite the tragedy that kicks off the film, things don\u2019t remain very serious for long. This is Romero by way of <strong>Mad Max<\/strong>, with every ounce of subtlety replaced by gas-breathing zombies and soldiers launching flying kicks in their faces.<\/p>\n<p>Any emotional undercurrent is quickly replaced by splattered gore and irreverent one-liners (some land, others don\u2019t), and is all the better for it. There\u2019s no life lessons to be learned here \u2013 only a good time to be had.<\/p>\n<p>Setting it apart from other zombie thrillers is the creativity on show \u2013 the revelation that the zombies can be used for fuel is appropriated to brilliantly dark comic effect, with an unfortunate victim being slung in the back of the truck for later.<\/p>\n<p>Other storytelling elements feel more contrived, and work less well as a result \u2013 such as one of the characters inexplicably being able to telepathically boss around the undead \u2013 but overall the madcap nature of what\u2019s on show just about wins out in the end.<\/p>\n<p>At times infuriatingly inconsistent but always entertaining in some form, enough of <strong>Wyrmwood<\/strong> hits its intended target for it to be one of the more memorable additions to the zombie-movie canon in recent years.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"616\" height=\"347\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/W6umyXkYli8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Romero meets Bad Taste in Australian zombie flick Wyrmwood: Road Of The Dead<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":74903,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[2617,8],"tags":[797,4441],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Wyrmwood.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74900"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}