By Jackie Shannon
“My favourite filmmaker hands down is Martin Scorsese,” Kiah Roach-Turner told FilmInk on the eve of the home entertainment release of his zombie splatter-fest, Wyrmwood: Road Of The Dead. “Everybody wants to be Martin Scorsese, and they want to be taken seriously. And everyone hopes to be Quentin Tarantino. And I’m in the horror camp now, and that’s not a bad camp to be in. People are mentioning my name alongside some of my heroes. And I don’t care what they call me, as long as they call me something.” Wyrmwood: Road Of The Dead was a huge gamble that paid off in a big way for co-writer/director, Kiah Roach-Turner, and his brother, co-writer/producer, Tristan Roache-Turner. Borrowing from mum, dad, friends, and a campaign on the crowd-funding website, IndiGOGO, the duo “basically did it exactly the way that Sam Raimi and Peter Jackson did it: you fund it yourself with whatever you can borrow or steal.” The film gained huge traction on the genre festival circuit, and provided the Roach-Turner brothers with a viscera-smeared calling card.
Kiah and Tristan Roache-Turner have now parlayed that into a Screen NSW-funded horror-action-internet-freakout meld with the very-very-intriguing-sounding Nekromancer. The project follows Howard North, an electronics genius dragged into a conflict between The Tribe (a family of powerful demon hunters) and Asgaroth, an evil demon possessing the world’s internet, assisted by a horde of devil-worshipping corporate acolytes. Molly, a Tribeswoman and warrior, is desperate to destroy the demon, and is sure that Howard has the right stuff to become a true hero. They must learn to work together to exorcise the fiend from the web and blow him back to Hell. Our tickets are already reserved!
Click here for Wyrmwood star, Bianca Bradey’s “The Films That Changed My Life.”
