E134 | Halloween Special | A Century of Cinematic Monsters: The Zombie, Vampire & Frankenstein

Podcast: The Passing Through Podcast · Danny

Opublikowano: 2026-10-31

Is a zombie just a mindless reanimated corpse cursed with an insatiable hunger for warm brains? Or are their pained groans an attempt to tell us something real about consumption, imperial extraction, plantation capitalism and the loss of bodily autonomy under oppressive settler-colonial regimes? Modern audiences may have forgotten this, but zombies, in their proper cultural context, didn’t eat flesh. In the original Haitian folklore from which the zombie arises, the monster is metaphor for the horrors of transatlantic chattel slavery. Signaling the ultimate, tragic horror of resurrecting a body—removing it from its final resting place—and condem...