While early depictions of zombies in cinema, such as White Zombie (1931), drew upon traditions of Haitian voodoo, zombies post-George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead (1968) have often been separated from this history. Filmmakers have chosen instead a method of zombification that erases the racialized history of the zombie, relying on things like radiation and contagious viruses to spread the condition. We’ve come so far from these earlier traditions that many viewers are pr