That’s terrifying! I hate when horror movies and shows make me stay awake! I’ve desensitised myself over the years, as I love horror; supernatural mostly, I don’t like ones based in reality as they do the same thing to me as you, cause nightmares and insomnia lol
The only way I can imagine zombies being real, is is rabies mutated and stopped before complete death. Which is unlikely I think, especially here as we don’t have rabies (just lyssavirus up north), plus we’re an island nation, so I imagine we could shut our borders (though COVID still came anyway). Plus the hydrophobia might make getting across bodies of water almost impossible for rabid-zombies. I class zombies in the supernatural category myself, along with ghosts, religious horror, etc.
Zombies don’t scare me, the fungus zombies on Last of Us were terrible. ☹️
Zombies in folklore were from Haiti, victims of datura flower or ciguatera fish toxins poisoning which would basically wipe their frontal lobes. ( I read a book about it! ) Don’t walk with bare feet guys, the poisoners sprinkled poison dust on the victim’s door steps.
"In Haitian folklore, for instance, zombies do not physically threaten people; rather, the threat comes from the voduon practice whereby the sorcerer (master) subjugates the individual by robbing the victim of free will, language and cognition. The zombie is enslaved."
— Justin D. Edwards, “Mapping Tropical Gothic in the Americas” in Tropical Gothic in Literature and Culture.
EDIT: ACK, hit enter too soon.
The interesting things of Zombies in the US is how there’s two very distinct origins - you have the haitan, which rose from the fear of and consequences of the transatlantic slave trade, but then you have Romero’s zombies, which aren’t slaves, but literal ravenous unthinking hordes devouring everything in their path while the survivors fragment and destroy themselves, which has morphed from a condemnation of individuality, to a fear of communism to a condemnation of capitalism to a condemnation of social media (he made that metaphor work hard, dammit!)
Romero pretty much just made disaster films that showed how shite we can be if we don’t pull together, with zombies as the disaster
That’s terrifying! I hate when horror movies and shows make me stay awake! I’ve desensitised myself over the years, as I love horror; supernatural mostly, I don’t like ones based in reality as they do the same thing to me as you, cause nightmares and insomnia lol
The only way I can imagine zombies being real, is is rabies mutated and stopped before complete death. Which is unlikely I think, especially here as we don’t have rabies (just lyssavirus up north), plus we’re an island nation, so I imagine we could shut our borders (though COVID still came anyway). Plus the hydrophobia might make getting across bodies of water almost impossible for rabid-zombies. I class zombies in the supernatural category myself, along with ghosts, religious horror, etc.
Zombies don’t scare me, the fungus zombies on Last of Us were terrible. ☹️
Zombies in folklore were from Haiti, victims of datura flower or ciguatera fish toxins poisoning which would basically wipe their frontal lobes. ( I read a book about it! ) Don’t walk with bare feet guys, the poisoners sprinkled poison dust on the victim’s door steps.
The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988) !
Wade Davis rocks!
That is the book. 🙂
"In Haitian folklore, for instance, zombies do not physically threaten people; rather, the threat comes from the voduon practice whereby the sorcerer (master) subjugates the individual by robbing the victim of free will, language and cognition. The zombie is enslaved."
— Justin D. Edwards, “Mapping Tropical Gothic in the Americas” in Tropical Gothic in Literature and Culture.
EDIT: ACK, hit enter too soon.
The interesting things of Zombies in the US is how there’s two very distinct origins - you have the haitan, which rose from the fear of and consequences of the transatlantic slave trade, but then you have Romero’s zombies, which aren’t slaves, but literal ravenous unthinking hordes devouring everything in their path while the survivors fragment and destroy themselves, which has morphed from a condemnation of individuality, to a fear of communism to a condemnation of capitalism to a condemnation of social media (he made that metaphor work hard, dammit!)
Romero pretty much just made disaster films that showed how shite we can be if we don’t pull together, with zombies as the disaster
100% based on the abuse of Haitians. The way zombies are portrayed in horror is just rabies dialled up.
I’ll have to read that book!