Ember's analysis
- Pacing
- Breakneck
- Intensity
- Strong
- Complexity
- Easy to follow
- Violence
- Graphic
- giddy
- irreverent
- visceral
- midnight movie night
- horror marathon
What critics said
Critics broadly found the sequel energetic, colorful, humorous, and entertaining, even while acknowledging its familiar genre formula and exhausting excess.
What sets it apart
May contain story progression spoilers
The action unfolds across a zombie-infested Australian wasteland, making the national setting central to its identity.
Critics specifically highlight the film's perverse colorfulness, visual energy, and splatter effects.
Rhys tracks and captures survivors for the Surgeon General while pursuing the promised possibility of a cure.
Its lean pacing, humorous schlock, familiar genre elements, and proudly splatterific presentation align with cult midnight cinema.
Films like Wyrmwood: Apocalypse, and why
Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead
Australian post-apocalyptic action, scrappy survivalists, and outrageous genre violence
Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior
post-apocalyptic wasteland action, black humor, and stylized practical gore
Bad Taste
splatter comedy, grotesque practical effects, and anarchic cult-horror energy
The Return of the Living Dead
fast-paced zombie horror, survival conflict, and darkly comic violence
Movie Details
- Director
- Kiah Roache-Turner
- Release Date
- 2022-02-10
- Runtime
- 88 min
- Rating
- 5.8 / 10 (152)
Cast
- Luke McKenzie
- Shantae Barnes-Cowan
- Bianca Bradey
- Tasia Zalar
- Jay Gallagher
- Nicholas Boshier
- Lauren Grimson
- Jim Robison
- Jake Ryan
- Goran D. Kleut
Where to watch in United States
- Streaming
- Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads
- Rent
- Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home
- Buy
- Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home
Streaming options come from TMDB and change over time.
Common questions
- What is Wyrmwood: Apocalypse about?
- A soldier hunting survivors in zombie-ravaged Australia is forced to confront the brutal machinery behind a supposed cure.
- What is Wyrmwood: Apocalypse like to watch?
- Ember's analysis rates the pacing of Wyrmwood: Apocalypse as breakneck, its intensity as strong and its storytelling as easy to follow.
- Is Wyrmwood: Apocalypse violent?
- Yes. Ember rates the violence in Wyrmwood: Apocalypse as graphic.
- What did critics think of Wyrmwood: Apocalypse?
- Critics broadly found the sequel energetic, colorful, humorous, and entertaining, even while acknowledging its familiar genre formula and exhausting excess.
- Which films are like Wyrmwood: Apocalypse?
- Films with a similar feel include Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead, Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior, Bad Taste, and The Return of the Living Dead.
- How long is Wyrmwood: Apocalypse?
- Wyrmwood: Apocalypse runs 88 minutes.
- Where can I watch Wyrmwood: Apocalypse?
- In United States, Wyrmwood: Apocalypse streams on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads.
