Rotten Tomatoes is celebrating Halloween with 31 days of horror double feature recommendations. Each day of the week will have its own theme, with today’s being Weird Wednesday! And if you want see what’s in store or what you missed, see the Daily Double schedule.
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On Weird Wednesdays we’ll walk with the movies that go off the beaten path…as though machete-wielding hockey mask killer zombies were ‘normal’ anyways. For this Daily Double, two Mad Max-inspired action/horror spectaculars from overseas!
It’s hard not to do a post-apocalyptic movie on a budget without lifting from
Mad Max or
Road Warrior, but
Wyrmwood does the source justice. Here we have your run-of-the-mill zombie uprising, but with a few unique quirks. Like the woman who’s been experimented on by a sadistic scientist emerging as capable of controlling the undead with her mind. Or that gasoline and diesel and its ilk can no longer catch a spark, but zombie odors will do the trick. All of a sudden, everyone’s useless automobiles can be put back to use with the right zombie upgrade. Recalling the kinetic verve of early Edgar Wright, like
Doomsday or
Road Warrior, this is another cobbled-together expression in creative and bloody freedom, but with an Australian twist. It’s weird to see a zombie apocalypse where everyone is so
nice, yet ready for a fist fight when the occasion calls for it. Or even when it doesn’t.
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