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Fully aware that this is ridiculous, but there are 2 things that I'm afraid of (aside from the impending doom): spiders and zombies. To the point Zombie Taylor Swift gave me nightmares. But last night, I decided that I'd watch the 28 Years Later trailer, thinking if I watched it with no sound and in a tiny box, I'd be fine.
And I was! Thought it was cool and didn't give it another thought. Until bedtime...
spoiler
Thought I could hear zombies in background of the rain sounds we listen to. Boyo twitched as he fell asleep and I (silently) freaked out. Tried to think about the upcoming trip and could only think about how Tokyo would be if something like that occurred while we were there. Was worried that the sensor light flickering on meant there were zombies coming into the back yard. Terrified if I got up to go the toilet during the night there would be a zombie in the house (this is a reoccurring thing anyway).WHY BRAIN.
Sidenote: the movie looks so good. I wish I could watch it.
I have to say the new Wallace and Gromit movie is more my speed. This all looks way too scary for me.
Can't wait for that to come out.
π§ββοΈTheyβre coming to get you , Barbara !π§ββοΈ
That's terrifying! I hate when horror movies and shows make me stay awake! I've desensitised myself over the years, as I love horror; supernatural mostly, I don't like ones based in reality as they do the same thing to me as you, cause nightmares and insomnia lol
The only way I can imagine zombies being real, is is rabies mutated and stopped before complete death. Which is unlikely I think, especially here as we don't have rabies (just lyssavirus up north), plus we're an island nation, so I imagine we could shut our borders (though COVID still came anyway). Plus the hydrophobia might make getting across bodies of water almost impossible for rabid-zombies. I class zombies in the supernatural category myself, along with ghosts, religious horror, etc.
Zombies don't scare me, the fungus zombies on Last of Us were terrible. βΉοΈ
Zombies in folklore were from Haiti, victims of datura flower or ciguatera fish toxins poisoning which would basically wipe their frontal lobes. ( I read a book about it! ) Don't walk with bare feet guys, the poisoners sprinkled poison dust on the victim's door steps.
"In Haitian folklore, for instance, zombies do not physically threaten people; rather, the threat comes from the voduon practice whereby the sorcerer (master) subjugates the individual by robbing the victim of free will, language and cognition. The zombie is enslaved."
β Justin D. Edwards, "Mapping Tropical Gothic in the Americas" in Tropical Gothic in Literature and Culture.
EDIT: ACK, hit enter too soon.
The interesting things of Zombies in the US is how there's two very distinct origins - you have the haitan, which rose from the fear of and consequences of the transatlantic slave trade, but then you have Romero's zombies, which aren't slaves, but literal ravenous unthinking hordes devouring everything in their path while the survivors fragment and destroy themselves, which has morphed from a condemnation of individuality, to a fear of communism to a condemnation of capitalism to a condemnation of social media (he made that metaphor work hard, dammit!)
Romero pretty much just made disaster films that showed how shite we can be if we don't pull together, with zombies as the disaster
The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988) !
Wade Davis rocks!
That is the book. π
100% based on the abuse of Haitians. The way zombies are portrayed in horror is just rabies dialled up.
I'll have to read that book!