Film Review – Wyrmwood: Apocalypse

“Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead” came to America in 2015, with filmmaking duo Kiah and Tristan Roache-Turner looking to have their way with the zombie subgenre, merging the merciless violence of the undead with a heavy “Mad Max” influence. The picture was a creative success, providing a necessary jolt of excitement for zombie entertainment, promising more mayhem to come. But mayhem didn’t come, at least not immediately, which is typically the norm for this kind of endeavor. Instead, the helmers waited quite some time to return to the world of “Wyrmwood,” emerging after seven long years with “Wyrmwood: Apocalypse,” which hopes to resurrect the graphic horrors of the original effort. “Apocalypse” sustains the intensity of the first movie, but timing isn’t a friend to the follow-up, with the large gap between features hurting the overall impact of the sequel, which struggles to come up with new challenges for its characters and deliver on expectations established years ago. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com