An energetic and entertaining blend of splatter-house horror and kinetic action mayhem, Wyrmwood: Apocalypsedelivers upon its promise of a zombie fuelled blend of Mad Max and Dawn of the Dead in the blood -soaked dirt of the Australian outback.

The long-awaited sequel to the 2014 Aussie cult-horror favourite Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead, the 88-minute Wyrmwood: Apocalypse is a lean, mean, violently entertaining horror action movie that once again features director Khai Roache-Turner and screenwriter/producer Tristan Roache-Turner on top of their genre exploitation filmmaking game.

Wyrmwood: Apocalypse stars Luke McKenzie as Rhys, a soldier for a paramilitary group dedicated to capturing zombies for The Surgeon General (Nicholas Boshier), a mad scientist who has promised to create a cure for the zombie apocalypse. When Rhys becomes disenfranchised with the cause he has dedicated himself to, he joins forces with fellow survivors Maxi (Shantae Barnes-Cowan), Barry (Jay Gallagher), and zombie-human hybrid Brooke (Bianca Bradey) to take The Surgeon General

The Roache-Turner brothers have again created a film that pays homage to their inspirations (namely George Miller and George A. Romero), while adding their own brand of grizzly gut drenched action horror mayhem that is innovative in design and energetic in execution. The films world building - a blend of blood-splattered bushland (filmed in Dural, New South Wales) and sweaty hyper-lit underground bunkers - continues the Ozploitation tradition of horror in the outback with gleeful abandon.

The cast of Wyrmwood: Apocalypse are more than gung-ho in contributing to the madness. Luke McKenzie is great as the films anti-hero, blending action man heroics with grounded Aussie larrikinism. Complimenting is Nicholas Boshier as the madcap Surgeon General, as vile and entertainingly over the top a villain as they come, with Joker face smile and drug infused jittery body movements that Boshier portrays with a zeal that is equally frightening and entertaining.

It is all part of a terrifically entertaining horror experience that gore hounds and action-heads alike will get a kick out of, with Wyrmwood: Apocalypse a nitrous fuelled Aussie zombie flick that ticks all the boxes for a terrifically trashy, bloody good time.