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But it’s here these flashbacks that we are introduced to our three main characters first we meet an Aborigine named Benny ( Leon Burchill) who witnessed the meteor shower that we assume is the cause of this particular zombie apocalypse (special thanks to the filmmaker for having characters refer to the undead as zombies) and is horrified to wake up to find one brother dead and the other a bloodthirsty fiend. The editing of these scenes is probably the film’s weakest element as at times I couldn’t quite figure out how each scene figured into the timeline and when we were actually caught up to the present, but once we are caught up the earlier chunkiness is quickly forgotten.
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The movie then gives us a couple of flashbacks as to what led to all this zombie carnage. A truck that will of course later be turned into a Mad Max armored vehicle. The movie opens with a group of men dressed up like Road Warrior wannabees (see above pic) as they battle a horde of the undead while trying to retrieve a truck.
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Director Kiah Roache-Turner and his brother Tristan bring us a low budget meal containing ingredients from Romero’s Dawn of the Dead, chunks of Thom Eberhardt’s Night of the Comet, and with a liberal splashing of George Miller’s Road Warrior, but with enough originality to make this film stand out. We are currently living in an era overflowing with projects featuring either superheroes or zombies on both big and small screens (which does have me wondering why we haven’t seen Marvel’s Zombies made into a movie yet), but of the two genres the zombie film is the more predominant as such films are easier to make on the cheap. It is a dark film but with a deeply twisted sense of humor, which is nice to see in a genre that can sometimes take itself way too seriously, “ I’m looking at you Walking Dead.” “ This morning I shot my wife and child with a nail gun.” This line is from the film’s main protagonist and pretty much sets the tone for brothers Kiah and Tristan Roache-Turner’s Australian zombie movie Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead.