Thorn
10-Apr-2012, 03:37 PM
Shaking Off the Cobwebs of the Crypt: The Evolution of the Zombie
Stop an average stranger on the street and ask them what a zombie is. Chances are they’ll give you a strange look. And then say that a zombie is a flesh-eating monster. They’d only be half right.
What few people know is that the lurching, ravenous undead of the screen have only been around for forty years. Before George Romero gave them teeth and the urge to use them in 1968’s Night of the Living Dead, zombies were little more than brainless slaves.
The zombie was first given life in the Caribbean of the early 1800’s, where the sugar cane plantations were worked by thousands of African slaves. Here, the zombie became intrinsically tied to the Vodun (or “voodoo”) religion.
(read the rest at the link provided below)
http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2012/04/cobwebs-of-the-crypt-the-evolution-of-the-zombie-thriller-horror
Stop an average stranger on the street and ask them what a zombie is. Chances are they’ll give you a strange look. And then say that a zombie is a flesh-eating monster. They’d only be half right.
What few people know is that the lurching, ravenous undead of the screen have only been around for forty years. Before George Romero gave them teeth and the urge to use them in 1968’s Night of the Living Dead, zombies were little more than brainless slaves.
The zombie was first given life in the Caribbean of the early 1800’s, where the sugar cane plantations were worked by thousands of African slaves. Here, the zombie became intrinsically tied to the Vodun (or “voodoo”) religion.
(read the rest at the link provided below)
http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2012/04/cobwebs-of-the-crypt-the-evolution-of-the-zombie-thriller-horror