Wyrmwood
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Wyrmwood |
| Original title | Wyrmwood |
| Country of production | Australia |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2014 |
| length | 94 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Kiah Roache-Turner |
| script | Kiah Roache-Turner, Tristan Roache-Turner |
| production |
John A. Heery , Tony Watt |
| music | Michael Lira |
| camera | Tim Nagle |
| cut | Kiah Roache-Turner |
| occupation | |
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Wyrmwood (also: Wyrmwood: the Road of the Dead ) is an Australian zombie film from 2014. Directed by Kiah Roache-Turner , he wrote the screenplay with his brother Tristan Roache-Turner .
action
The mechanic Barry lives in the Australian outback with his wife and daughter. A hail of meteorites caused a zombie epidemic. Barry tries to escape with his family and to reach his sister Brooke, who lives in Bulla , Victoria and runs a photo studio for fetish models there . However, when the car suddenly stops, Berry is forced to kill his family. Meanwhile, his sister is kidnapped by military personnel and meets an insane doctor who conducts abnormal experiments on zombies and non-infected people.
On his journey, Barry meets the Aborigine who was forced to kill his own brother. The two meet another survivor team. Together they discover that all gasoline has become unusable, but that the zombies are removing fuel that is suitable for powering machines. And so they modify a car so that the zombies serve as fuel.
On the way to Bulla, all members of the team are killed except for Berry and Benny. They struggle together until they come across a military truck. Inside, Brooke can break free from the doctor's clutches. The experiments made her kinetically gifted and can now command zombies.
Finally there is a showdown between Barry, Benny and Brooke against the corrupt and sadistic captain, in the course of which Benny mutates into a zombie so that he can be controlled by Brooke. Benny manages to kill two soldiers, but the captain finally shoots him. He then seriously injures Barry, who nevertheless opposes him. When he is about to kill him, Brooke sets a zombie horde on him.
Shortly afterwards, Barry and Brooke run into another military truck. When the soldiers are uncooperative, Brooke sets another zombie horde on them.
background
The brothers Kiah Roache-Turner and Tristan Roache-Turner were big fans of Mad Max and Zombie in their youth and decided to combine the two films to generate a road movie-like zombie film. The film was shot over a period of three years, with the actors staying constant. However, Benny Yure Covich was planned, but had to cancel at short notice, so that Leon Burchill came as a replacement. It was more difficult that it had to be shot with changing crews. This resulted in idle times of several months between the individual takes and mostly it was only possible to shoot on weekends. In addition, there were changing recording formats and of course the actors also changed during the time.
Parts of the film were realized via the crowdfunding platform Indiegogo .
The film premiered on September 19, 2014 at Fantastic Fest in Austin , Texas .
The uncut version of the film was released in Germany on August 6, 2015 as DVD and Blu-Ray via Tiberius Film .
Reception and success
For an independent zombie film, the film was very successful. On his first weekend in Australia, he already brought in 100,000 Australian dollars and was marketed worldwide. On Pirate Bay , he was in the top 10 most pirated movies and even hit blockbusters like American Sniper and The Imitation Game .
The film was also very popular among critics and currently has 90% on the Rotten Tomatoes website . Robert Abele described it in Los Angeles Time as far better than similar independent films, especially since the story is a bit wacky here. Jeannette Catsoulis also spoke positively about the film in the New York Times , which she believes has enough independence and energy to balance its minimal budget. Patrick Holzapfel, on the other hand, was relatively critical of the film on Kino-Zeit.de:
“In addition, the plot is extremely predictable - especially for the genre republic mentioned - there are hardly any surprises or unexpected images. The high-end aesthetic was apparently mainly used for an exaggerated post-processing of an area of the world that would radiate a fascinating threat precisely in its untouched state. Unfortunately, the film hardly tries to join the great ranks of films like Wake in Fright or Long Weekend and to stage a horror that emanates from the outback. Rather, this landscape is largely an interchangeable background. So the great achievement of the film remains the production, which also says a lot about the current preferences in Australian cinema. "
Web links
- Wyrmwood in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official presence on Facebook
Individual evidence
- ↑ release document for Wyrmwood . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF).
- ↑ Fantastic Fest 2014 Interview: Kiah & Tristan Roache-Turner . In: Mandatory . September 26, 2014 ( mandatory.com [accessed March 22, 2018]).
- ↑ WYRMWOOD: Post Production Slaughterhouse. Retrieved March 22, 2018 (American English).
- ↑ Wyrmwood. In: Fantastic Fest. Retrieved March 22, 2018 .
- ↑ Wyrmwood in the online movie database
- ↑ Little Aussie film more pirated than 50 Shades . In: NewsComAu . ( com.au [accessed March 22, 2018]).
- ↑ Wormwood. Rotten Tomatoes, accessed March 22, 2018 .
- ↑ Robert Abele: 'Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead' breathes life into zombie genre. In: Los Angeles Times. February 27, 2015, accessed March 22, 2018 .
- ↑ Jeannette Catsoulis: Review: 'Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead' Puts Zombies in the Outback . In: The New York Times . February 12, 2015, ISSN 0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed March 22, 2018]).
- ↑ Wyrmwood. A film review by Patrick Holzapfel. Kino-Zeit.de, accessed on March 22, 2018 .