Zombies, Junkies with a Religion

Zombies, Hollywood and Reality An Essay by Robert Guzman UPR, Aguadilla When most people think about zombies they think Hollywood. They think about George A Romero’s Night of the Living Dead. They think about the dancing undead in Michael Jackson’s... More

Zombies, Hollywood and Reality An Essay by Robert Guzman UPR, Aguadilla When most people think about zombies they think Hollywood. They think about George A Romero’s Night of the Living Dead. They think about the dancing undead in Michael Jackson’s Thriller video. They imagine the zombie masses attacking them in popular video games like Left 4 Dead. More recently they may think about the dark, very dark, movie Zombieland , a recent comedy flick. Most people may not be aware of it but there are real life zombies and they do have some similarities with these fantastic artistic creations. Like their make-believe counterparts the zombies of Haiti also have a strong element of exoticism. They are seen by most people as something dark, mysterious, the product of dark spiritual powers. This is not something new. When things are dressed up in mystery, when words are used to change our perception of reality they can make the ordinary seem extraordinary and the understandable utterly un Less