Maya Bannick Bedward’s elegant and politically potent documentary recontextualizes one of modern horror’s most frequently used monsters.

Black Zombie director Maya Annik Bedward tells how her new documentary explores the Haitian Vodou roots of zombie culture.

Maya Annik Bedward’s fascinating new documentary goes beyond reductive imagery to place the zombie and vodou in their true historical context

Maya Annik Bedward’s fascinating new documentary goes beyond reductive imagery to place the zombie and vodou in their true historical context

Maya Annik Bedward’s elegant and politically potent documentary recontextualizes one of modern horror’s most frequently used monsters.

Zombies have roots most fans have never heard of. In Haitian Vodou, being zombified meant being enslaved even in death. B.A. Parker talks to Maya Annik Bedward, director of the new documentary Black Z...

Maya Annik Bedward’s documentary, which made its Canadian premiere at Hot Docs Festival, shows how Hollywood helped transform a Haitian spiritual concept into a racist trope…

Women's elite athletics is full of uncomfortable examples of institutions putting performance above athletes' physical and psychological well-being, and BLOODY TENNIS is biting back.

Maya Annik Bedward’s fascinating new documentary goes beyond reductive imagery to place the zombie and vodou in their true historical context

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It’s hard to deny that, when it comes to the image of a zombie we all know today, most of us would likely point an undead finger at the works of George A. Romero, mastermind behind such genre-definers as “Night of the Living Dead,” “Dawn of the Dead,” and… well, even if one were to stop there, little more needs to be said. His impact? Continue reading ‘Black Zombie’ Review: Maya Annik Bedward’s Fascinating Doc Reclaims The Zombie’s Haitian Roots at The Playlist.

How the filmmaker's new doc explores (and reclaims) the intersection of race, religion, and the zombie genre.

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Black Zombie puts its finger on the pulse of what makes zombies such a mainstay for horror while highlighting its origins and connections to the "other."

It's time that those still capitalizing on the undead reckon with their voodoo origins. Black Zombie shows how that's possible.

The award-winning director talks excavating the history of the zombie monster in Haiti.

Black Zombie is a must-watch documentary for horror fans. Zombies have been a part of pop culture so long that many people don't know the origin of the zombie and how much our view of zombies has chan...

Maya Annik Bedward’s fascinating new documentary goes beyond reductive imagery to place the zombie and vodou in their true historical context

Maya Annik Bedward’s fascinating new documentary goes beyond reductive imagery to place the zombie and vodou in their true historical context

Horror has had its ups and downs over the decades, but the zombie subgenre has remained cosnsistent. Whether it's television sensations lik

If Xavier Burgin's Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror is the equivalent of a survey course you might take freshman year at college, Maya Annik Bedward's Black Zombie is the kind of class you take junior year that makes you consider going to grad school for this stuff. The film begins, as many of these documentaries about film do, with a montage of moments (spanning the 1920s to the 2020s) that attempt to convince you why you should care about this particular cultural history and its place in the pop culture landscape today. Interspersed with these clips are several talking heads that give previews of the ideas the rest of the movie will delve into: Zombies raise "questions about autonomy and agency," zombies are... [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]