Maya Annik Bedward’s documentary looks at nearly a century of zombie cinema through the lens of cultural appropriation, as a gross distortion of the Haitian culture and beliefs that first inspired it.
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Courtesy of Kino Lorber In Hollywood’s original horror heyday of the 1930s and ’40s, it would have been hard to imagine another figure challenging the classic terror quartet of Dracula, Frankenstein monster, werewolf and mummy — let alone that the lowly zombie would ever become serious competition. Yet while those aforementioned creatures still get rehabilitated on a regular basis, they’re now greatly surpassed in popular visibility by a cannibal undead that didn’t even exist in the genre until more recent decades.
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