Wrymwood Road Of The Living Dead Film Analysis

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The film by Kiah and Tristan Roache-Turner titled “Wrymwood: Road of the Dead” is a low budget zombie genre horror movie that was filmed in Australia and was released in 2014. Wrymwood is an extension of the zombie genre that draws on typical zombie cannon while exploring concepts that are atypical of most modern zombie movies. The film expertly combines a post-apocalyptic zombie story with the ideas of another Australian classic in the “Mad Max” series (Dee, 2015). While the movie clearly does not possess the high budget effects of many of today’s zombie films, it is an entertaining escape from many of the formulaic films of today that draw from the well of Romero’s original work in “Night of the Living Dead”
The tile of the film, Wyrmwood, draws parallels with an excerpt from the book of Revelation in the Bible. This passage states “and a great star, blazing like a torch, fell from heaven. It fell on a third of the rivers and springs of water. The name of the star is Wormwood” Rev 6:15 (Holman Christian Standard Bible). The film begins with a chaotic scene where a group of heavily armed and armored survivors battle against a pack of gas spewing zombies in order to retrieve a truck outside of a garage. This scene of chaos cuts to character Benny telling a story of the beginning of the zombie apocalypse. In his story he explains that during a trip …show more content…

In that film the villains armor their vehicles and themselves in much the same way that Wyrmwood’s protagonist do (Kennedy & Miller, 1981). Had the protagonists had the foresight to prepare for the zombie apocalypse, they might have read Max Brooks work on preparing for and surviving a zombie outbreak. If they had, they might have avoided the pitfall of wearing armor. That being a dangerous overconfidence in the ability of the armor to protect an individual from a zombie bite (Brooks,

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