‘Black Zombie’ Review: An Engaging Doc on How the Flesh-Eating Hordes of Screen Fame Obscured Painful Real-Life History

Variety reviews Black Zombie, a documentary exploring how zombie depictions in Hollywood horror have obscured painful real-world history. The film examines the monster hierarchy of nineteen thirties and forties cinema — when Dracula, Frankenstein, werewolves, and mummies dominated while zombies remained minor players. Yet it traces how the zombie eventually became a serious competitor in horror cinema.

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