Wyrmwood: Apocalypse (2021)
Genre: Action / Horror
Duration: 90 minuten
Country:
Australia
Directed by: Kiah Roache-Turner
Stars: Bianca Bradey, Luke McKenzie and Shantae Barnes-Cowan
IMDb score:
5,5 (3.910)
Releasedate: 10 February 2022
Wyrmwood: Apocalypse plot
"Get ready for the fight of your bloody life."
Australia is still plagued by bloodthirsty zombies. Private Rhys tracks down and captures survivors for Surgeon General, hoping to find a cure. However, Rhys discovers that nothing is as it seems and starts a race against time with three other people. They set out to find the one person who can end the apocalypse.
Actors and actresses
Rhys
Maxi
Brooke
Grace
Barry
The Surgeon
Bethany
Sargent Merritt
The Colonel
The Doctor
Reviews & comments
Shadowed
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Elaborated.
I thought the first part was quite a pleasant surprise at the time. Roache-Turner chose a refreshing direction by throwing everything together as quickly as possible. It delivered a quite energetic and occasionally disturbed film. It looked like beginner's work, but from a director who really had a passion for the profession.
Meanwhile, 9 years have passed and you would think that a sequel of the same name would have a bit more quality, but in principle Roache-Turner is just repeating the same tune again. The same characters return, the environment remains just as dry and the direction still has the same amount of energy. The problem is that we've seen it before, so there's no surprise at all.
The original ideas are running out and the new additions are mainly a bit silly. Roache-Turner also seems to lose himself a bit during the action scenes. Still edited very quickly and the pace may be decent, but the clumsy violence as well as the truly creative discoveries are lacking. That's what made the first part so much in its favor, here you just get to see it again, which means it gets fleshed out sooner than you would hope.
So little addition, I would have preferred to see real directorial development. That doesn't end with this part, it seemed like they just wanted to relive the old times. At the time it felt really refreshing, but that unique twist is gone now. This leaves an entertaining, fast-paced but flat film that I couldn't really imagine having found anything new at all. It left a bit of a bitter taste, but oh well.
Translated from Dutch · View original
blurp194
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- 5553 messages
- 4232 votes
Nice sequel to the original, and all the strong points from it return - a lot of clunky action, a lot of gore, a lot of nonsense. Some of the original cast is also participating again, which I always think is a plus - and it's nice and creative to have McKenzie play his own twin brother. And also very nice is the way in which the Surgeon General 'taps' his patients.
In terms of design, both brilliant and slightly too low-budget. But it does work, that has to be said - with the visible breath and contact lenses, the zombies are nicely recognizable and on the other hand also sufficiently scary.
Actually only a few criticisms - cinematography and soundtrack are a bit unremarkable. And this second part may not be worse than part 1, but it differs little from it.
Translated from Dutch · View originalPre- and sequels
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