The cast also includes Nick Boshier, Jake Ryan, Bianca Bradey, Tasia Zalar, Shantae Barnes-Cowan, and Jay Gallagher. The film follows special-forces soldier Rhys, played by lead actor Luke Mckenzie, who teams up with a group of super-powered survivors to save a young woman from death by military experimentation. Written by Kiah and Tristan Roache-Turner, and directed by Kiah, Wyrmwood: Apocalypse is a sequel to their 2015 cult hit Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead. There is more good news for the Roache-Turner brothers’ zombie action-thriller Wyrmwood: Apocalypse following its Australian premiere last week, with XYZ Films acquiring the global distribution rights and planning a US release of the film. XYZ Films secures worldwide rights to Roache-Turner brothers’ ‘Wyrmwood: Apocalypse’ The Advent Calendar world premiered earlier this year at London’s Frightfest Now Eva will have to choose between getting rid of the calendar or walking again – even if it causes death and destruction to everyone she holds dear around her. Some of them are good, but most of them are bad, really bad. When her friend Sophie gives her an old wooden antique advent calendar before Christmas, she realizes each window contains a surprise that triggers repercussions in real life. Eva, an ex-dancer, is now using a wheelchair, unable to walk. Combining Faustian themes and allusions with European folklore and tense, chilling terror, the Shudder Original film provides some highly original holiday season horror. The Advent Calendar Trailer: " Shudder, AMC Networks’ streamer for horror, thrillers and the supernatural will premiere writer/director Patrick Ridremont’s ornate and elegant French horror fantasy The Advent Calendar exclusively on Thursday, December 9th. Wyrmwood: Apocalypse gets XYZ Films acquisition The post ‘ Wyrmwood: Apocalypse’ (Trailer) appeared first on If Magazine. Wyrmwood: Apocalypse will be in cinemas February 10 via Studiocanal. Screen Australia and Screen Nsw financially supported the production. Blake Northfield and Tristan Roache-Turner produce for Bronte Pictures and Guerilla Films respectively. Written by Kiah and Tristian Roache-Turner, and directed by Kiah, Wyrmwood: Apocalypse is a sequel to their 2015 cult hit Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead.
Also starring are Shantae Barnes Cowan as Maxi, Jake Ryan as the Colonel, Bianca Bradey as Brooke, Tasia Zalar as Grace, Jay Gallagher as Barry and Nick Boshier as the Surgeon General. Rhys is on an arc of redemption as he turns against his evil bosses and joins forces with a group of rebel survivors to help rescue a girl who holds the cure to the virus. In the Roache-Turner brothers’ Wyrmwood: Apocalypse, soldier Rhys ( Luke McKenzie) lives in a zombie-infested Australian wasteland.