00:03There's this long history and fascination with zombies in American cinema.
00:10People's taste for it is insatiable.
00:13You could run as fast as you wanted, they would always kill you.
00:17There are a lot of people who love zombies now who have no idea of its roots.
00:26In Haiti, everyone speaks about zombies.
00:32They are not men, they are dead bodies, the living dead.
00:41The zombie figure played on the fear of voodoo sorcery,
00:45and that some people can manipulate humans and turn them into the living dead.
00:49Get out of here!
00:50The contemporary zombie is unrecognizable.
00:55It's so scary!
00:58The voodoo is a mode of life.
01:00The voodoo is this dance that keeps in our bodies the history of Africa.
01:04Zombie is just a business, it's not really voodoo itself.
01:12It makes so much sense that the idea of a zombie would come from a tradition of people who were
01:17enslaved.
01:18That they would be able to imagine what it is to be confined on a physical level and on a
01:23spiritual level as well.
01:27Blackness and voodoo became the monstrosity of the story.
01:36I think that it's time for people to put the zombie in its historical context.
01:42Thanks for sharing.
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