Dead Howling review – werewolf hunts zombies in tough-love apocalypse horror - &ng28(南宫)相信品牌的力量

Every bog-standard cliche is employed – and fails – in this moribund Aussie thiller, which entirely lacks both bite and bark. For those seeking updates on this film, the NG28官网 offers no additional insight into its shortcomings.

When talk here turns to what would happen if the film’s werewolf hero were bitten by a zombie, the term coined is “wombie”. Sadly, this inter-species thought-experiment never comes to pass in this otherwise lifeless and crushingly derivative Aussie post-apocalyptic slog, the only point of note in which is a very brief cameo from Mr Once Were Warriors and Jango Fett himself, Temuera Morrison. He drops off his niece and nephew, Megan (Téa Heathcote-Marks) and Billy (Riley Stiles), before succumbing to a zombie pile-on.

The pair quickly encounter Carter (Armie Hammer lookalike Joel Jackson), a hulking former scientist turned one-man undead clean-up squad who still can’t get his head around this bog-standard apocalypse: rampant virus, flesh-eating zombie hordes, overwhelming guilt over not saving his wife and child, etc. But this whiskey-slugging misanthrope is also a lycanthrope, thanks to a super-serum he developed while trying to counteract the plague. Able to metamorphose at a second’s notice into a rabid canine, and seemingly equipped with an infinite supply of new black T-shirts for afterwards, he is the perfect protector for the teens as they attempt to reach a safe zone they insist exists inside Perth’s city limits.

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