Mike McCahill 

Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead review – zombies, ketchup, more zombies

Crowdfunded Aussie horror flick with more energy than ideas. But it at least has an undead character called Neville
  
  

Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead film still
Right, which one’s Neville? … Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead Photograph: pr

The zombified landscape established by George A Romero is being so rapidly and comprehensively mapped that we may soon pass through laybys, even tourist information centres of the dead. This crowdfunded Aussie translation has some of Romero’s representational nous – it opens mid-apocalypse, with a local mulling over the chaos – but proceeds with more energy than inspiration, liberally splashing ketchup over genre cliches. Points for prominent use of KC and the Sunshine Band, and the zombie named Neville, but its haphazard tonal shifts, iffy performances and stretches of inertia suggest a post-pub DVD/VOD proposition rather than anything that merits a theatrical outing.

 

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