The Jacques Tourneur/Val Lewton film I Walked with a Zombie is suffused
with a sense of the horror of slavery and its effect on the island and
its people, both black and white.
j
Herbert Schwaab wrote:
> I don't find much of political implications in horror films. I wonder
> why they don't treat political subjects head on, but there are some very
> interesting moments in some films. Victor Halperin's White Zombie (1932)
> has some very scary images of Zombies working in a mill, a very
> impressive and also haunting impression of Fordism and modern forms of
> slavery. But the film also creates a feeling of being totally alone in
> the world. The nightmares (when I was young) were caused by a feeling of
> being totally alone in the world. Horror films don't offer
> transcendental point of views but they create a camera subject that is
> both anonymous and monstrous.
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