Wyrmwood 2014

Critics score:
79 / 100

Reviews provided by RottenTomatoes

Richard Kuipers, Variety: Armed with "Mad Max"-like design elements and a good sense of humor, this energetically executed bloodbath marks a promising feature bow for Australian brothers Kiah and Tristan Roache-Turner. Read more

Kiva Reardon, AV Club: A feeling of foreboding sets in early in Kiah Roache-Turner's zombie-apocalypse thriller Wyrmwood: Road Of The Dead. Unfortunately, it has nothing to do with the hellish subject matter and everything to do with the direction. Read more

Clark Collis, Entertainment Weekly: While featuring mucho mayhem, Wyrmwood also takes refreshing liberties with the walking-corpse playbook. Read more

Frank Scheck, Hollywood Reporter: Kiah Roache-Turner's zombie movie set in the Australian outback displays enough gonzo elements to please genre fans, with its resemblance to the Mad Max series clearly not coincidental. Read more

Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times: The Roache-Turners prove to have the right mix of micro-budget filmmaking ingenuity, action sass and undead splatter to make "Wyrmwood" a tastier than usual exploitation nosh. Read more

Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times: Ambulant corpses may be tramping all over our movie and television screens these days, but "Wyrmwood" has enough novelty - and more than enough energy - to best its minuscule budget. Read more

Tom Huddleston, Time Out: You could do far worse for a boozy Friday night out. Read more

Rob Staeger, Village Voice: Australian filmmakers Kiah and Tristan Roache-Turner remind us why we love these bloody movies in the first place, evincing Raimi-esque glee at twisting the rules of zombiehood like so much taffy. Read more