So it looks like there will be a couple of Friday * Zombie Moments missed for a couple of weeks because of my vacation to Mexico next week. Sorry about that.
Dead Snow: This 2009 Norwegian horror movie follows a group of medical students whose ski vacation turns deadly when they find themselves surrounded by zombies that occupied the area as Nazi officers during World War II. The students end up trapped in a cabin, attempting to fend off Nazi zombies.
An expert at treating fiction as fact, Max Brooks has written the definitive guide for those who can’t wait for the zombie Armageddon to begin. His life-saving book, The Zombie Survival Guide (2003), “offers complete protection through trusted, proven tips for safeguarding yourself and your loved ones against the living dead.” He is also the author of World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War (2006) and the Zombie Survival Guide: Recorded Attacks (2009). Brooks says, “I don’t know what’s scarier, the fact that zombies could rise or the fact there are actually people out there that can’t wait for it to happen.
To what part of the world can the origin of zombies be traced? West Africa. The exact origins of Voodoo are unknown, but most experts generally agree that it started in West Africa, probably in the nation of Benin (formerly called “Dahomey”). Believed to have derived from early practices of polytheism and ancestor worship, Voodoo practices spread from Africa to the Caribbean Islands and North America on slave ships. Forced into labour and expected to convert to Christianity, many enslaved Africans clung to the familiar spirits of their ancestors but disguised them as Catholic saints because their new “masters” wouldn’t let them practice Voodoo.
In 1985’s Re-Animator, the first man who is re-animated at the morgue (who later kills the Dean) was Arnold Schwarzenegger’s body double.
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