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Okay, “I walked with a zombie” was just utterly terrifying. It used more of blackness then actual zombification for the main horror source. A lot of darkness used was in black people along with dark areas of the movie. Voodoo is typically used in Hati and by people of African decent so mainly black people believe in it and used it.

Another movie where voodoo is used is in tales from the hood, where the black doll comes to life and kills the racist man. Before anything bad happens the man is warned but doesn’t listen so the old woman puts a voodoo spell on the dolls which brings them to life and kills the man, they are made of wood so the man initially died from a bunch of splinters because they bit him on all parts of his body

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Night of the living dead is a movie that well explains that world wide infections can and will be controlled by the people in power. We can finally understand this towards the end of the movie where the sheriff kills ben and says “another one for the farm” meaning that they have an entire plan to control the monsters and use them for power.

This is very similar to a movie called “Maze Runner, The Death Cure.” During that film there are people in control of a virus which is turning people into zombies so they can have world wide control over everyone, the problem is that the virus can adapt at anytime so they have to create a cure for any stage the virus may take.

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White Zombie takes a new approach to how zombies work. The original zombies in all forms seem to have lost control of their bodies and are mindless; legendre seems to have full control over his consciousness while allegedly being a zombie himself.

The only other movie i can think of where an entity is in full control of their transformed body is Chucky from child’s. He is a doll possessed by a man who cast a spell to get into the doll when he was about to be arrested for murder. His end gaol was to take over the body of a child and start a new life.

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28 Days later is another zombie apocalypse movie that involves possessing somebody’s body from an outside source that disables the conciseness. During the film it’s mostly just about the people who are now in power running the world; you still get a chance to see the zombies but it’s mainly the new world order.

This entire movie basically set the tone for the walking dead mainly because there are similarities between the two, yes zombies are a huge problem but the bigger issue lies within the people who now take control over the people. Instead of there being a fight for survival there is now a fight for power.

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The Witch is a movie that envelops blackness and zombification in one to get more of a horror effect out of the audience. Throughout the film you will see a character named black phillip, he is a black goat who doesn’t have dialogue until the end of the film which is incredibly terrifying because one of his lines is “I will guide thy hand.” Before this there were children chasing it and making phillip upset by yelling at him. This idea of horror is measured in the unknown of what the entity is thinking at that point and could react violently in any manner towards the children and take over the entire town.

The zombification portrayed in this film takes place where the boy appears to getting possessed. During this scene he is starting to lose control over his body and that is a process of him becoming a zombie. He might not be a flesh eating monster but his body belonged to something else, what happens to his conciseness is unknown but from the outside looking in we can definitely see strange and unholy behavior which could frighten most people.

Black Philip is actually a symbol of Evil which looks like this, most devil worshipers use goats as an example to mock God. During one point in the Old Testament he had people mark their door in lambs blood to save their first born, a Goat is an exact opposite of a lamb so its used as whichcraft

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The girl with all the gifts is a zombie movie with a specific type of zombification style that is used in just a few other horror stories. The zombies portrayed in this film are like any other infectious disease movie; the difference is that the children in the film have a fungal infection and it can only be activated if they smell human saliva or blood. There is a scene that shows the kids restrained to a chair and one of the military men spits on his arm and they all start going crazy trying to eat him. Rather than just being mindless monsters the children have a chance to be cured from the disease which is why they try and run tests on the children to see if they can save them.

This puts a lot of people in the mindset of Black Ops zombies where Alex mason is tied to chair, you can break free in normal mode but when you switch to zombie mode then it is impossible to get loose from the restraints.

Don’t worry about Hudson, he will bang the glass until you press play but he’ll never get in.

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Candy man has a lot of culture influences that were turned into horror; the horror is split into two different types of settings that can easily give people a fright depending on how you look at it.

The main character Helen summoned candyman by saying his name 3 times in the mirror, along with her friend. This is a cultural reference to the urban legend “Bloody Marry,” where you say her name 3 times and she appears to haunt you. We see this twice throughout the film, once when helen does it and again towards the end where Trevor says Helens name. The main difference between the scenes is candy man haunts Helen first before attempting to kill her, Trever just got destroyed immediately.

The other type of horror is when Helen goes into an abandoned building to take pictures; this is considered horror due to the fact that the area is already run down and poor looking, and the building appears to have been that way for a while so that means it wasn’t scheduled for demolition at all. With that being said there is a possibility that people could still be moved into the buildings despite the one girl already being there pressing Helen for even being there in the first place.

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“Get Out”is a horror movie that uses blackness and fungability in a few unique ways, throughout the film you we see the different types of messages being portrayed through multiple scenes and characters.

So diving right into the horror aspect we can see blackness being used to trigger fear in a sense that being all alone would haunt you forever. The main character Chris is being hypnotized and when he finally realizes it his consciousness is thrown into this dark abyss where he cannot move and is forced to watch the world from outside his own body with no control. This idea of horror replaces traditional darkness; whereas someone is scared because there might be something in the dark with them, in this case the audience can see what’s directly in the dark and its literally their own body being taken over by someone else.

The fungible aspect of things comes from the auction scene when Chris was in the woods, it seemed like a bingo game and the old blind man won Chris. The whole reason behind this was so they could put that old man in Chris’ body to gain his eye sight back. Instead of traditional fungibility such as gentrification, it is directed towards the person rather than actual property.

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Blacula is a movie that dives deep into the blackness discussed in class. The first thing we learned about was the essence of blackness being associated with evil, we see this throughout the movie in multiple different Scenes. One being the very beginning, we see that Dracula’s castle is extremely dark and only lit with certain candles placed in specific parts of the room. Almost reminds me of the eddie murphy film “Vampire in Brooklyn”

Once Dracula bites the main character and turns him into “Blacula” thats when the real horror begins. He was cursed to thirst for blood and never to be able to taste it as he was locked in a coffin. When the coffin was open blacula began his hunt and drank the blood of his victims while all the same time turning them into vampires. Before he attacks he emerges from the dark shadows, with all that being said blacula being a black man represents the same darkness that is horrifying.