"This truck runs on zombies."

If there's one thing I'm sick of seeing, it's horror movies that are blue.  Do you know what I'm talking about? It's like the trend these days if you're making a horror film is to color correct it so the whole movie has a bluish tinge to it. I suppose the thinking is to create cold, bleak atmosphere, but I always just assume the director has some residual Smurf-related anxiety left over from the 1980s.

Don't get me wrong. Blue is one of my seven favorite colors. It's right up there with orange and purple. It just feels like Hollywood has forgotten it's got a whole rainbow at its disposal for scaring people.

That's why Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead caught my eye. Australian director Kiah Roache-Turner has delivered a zombie epic that is saturated in blood reds, slime greens, and hazmat-suit yellows.

I know you're already rolling your eyes and saying, "Another zombie movie? That's been done to undeath. What's left to see?" but this 2014 film, available on Netflix, is a lot of fun to look at.  Its fast-paced, highly visual storytelling will get your heart pumping,  so you'll get your couch cardio in.

The plot revolves around a mechanic named Barry (Jay Gallagher), who goes through the usual heart-wrenching ordeal of dispatching his wife and daughter with a nail gun. His sister Brooke (Bianca Bradley) has been captured by the army and is subject to bizarre experiments by a disco-listening, mad doctor (Berynn Schwerdt).

Barry goes looking for Brooke and meets up with some other handy gents who discover that the zombies exhale a highly flammable gas that can be used as fuel. So they armor up their bodies and their truck all Mad Max-style and hit the road. The trip hits a snag when they discover the zombies only give off the gas in the daytime, but at night they use it to run fast.

Or something.

Yeah, this movie works best when the action is telling the story. That's not to say there isn't some good acting. With minimal dialogue Roache-Turner delivers strong characters you can care about, and it doesn't take a lot of jibber jabber.

It may tax your suspension of disbelief in moments, but with lurid colors, bad-ass action, quirky humor and high-octane halitosis, Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead is a refreshing reminder that zombies can still be funny, tragic and scary all in one film.