Bianca Bradey does a very good job at making this movie her own, but there is some competition with the character she spends most of the film with, The Doc (Berynn Schwerdt). To connect the zombies with the road trip concept they are made to be a fuel source, which is an interesting move if it wasn’t for the more interesting connection between the Zombie and the real star of the film Brooke played by Bianca Bradley.įor Brooke, a lot of the movie is used to set up her powers of control over the zombies and to build up her aura of being a total badass who can handle herself in any situation she finds herself in. It is a world where fuel is scarce, which is perfect Max territory. It is obvious that writers Kiah Roach-Turner and Tristan Roach-Turner (The Roach-Turner Brothers) are fan of Mad Max when you see the armour people wear and the cars that Barry and the people who travel with him end up outing together. In Wyrmwood: Road of the Deadthough the zombies are a source of fuel for vehicles, which puts the movie into Mad Max territory, especially with the cars on show. Yes, there may be some that argue that zombies shouldn’t run, but we’ve all seen them move fast in movies plenty of times. Most of the reason for this is that they are a creature that need little reason to exist, are easy to fear and don’t have a firm set of rules as to how they fit into any world. The fact is though pop culture still finds a use for them.
Zombies have been done to death, pun intended. Teaming up with Benny (Leon Burchill) Barry goes on the road to find Brooke who appears to be gaining a few hidden talents of her own when it comes to zombies. Another survivor of the zombie plague, she finders herself captured by sinister gas-mask wearing soldiers and experimented on by a demented doctor. When Barry’s (Jay Gallagher) life is torn apart by the sudden oncoming of the zombie apocalypse which takes his wife and daughter from him he sets off in search of his sister Brooke (Bianca Bradey) who tried to warn him of what was to come. Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead is one of the latest to fit in the Ozploitation mold, and also add an interesting edge to zombies genre. Normally focused of the darker side of the movie world it is where movies such as Wake in Fright, Mad Max, The Cars that Ate Paris and more recently Wolf Creek and The Loved Ones came to be. There are many versions of exploitation in the movie world but Ozploitation is the most fun and anarchic.