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fandomhigh2010-02-15 10:54 am
chosehumanity) wrote in fandomhigh2010-02-15 10:54 am
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Horror 101, Monday
"We're going to be talking about zombies," Mitchell started. Why, yes, he'd thrown his lesson plan out the window again. "I was going to bring up succubi, but that might be a bit too NC-17 for you lot." Actually, the original topic had been vampires, but see again re: lesson plan out the window.
"The bodies of our dead come back to life with only a fraction of their brains left, if any," he started, "Mindless creatures milling about trying to take a bite out of you. In film, it depends on what you watch, the old ones had the regular shambling kind you could outrun, but we've developed this obsession with fast zombies as well."
He scraped his throat. "It started with Vodou in Haiti, in the way we know it today. They'd say a dead man could be revived by a Bokor to do his bidding, because he was mindless. A bit appropriate to more than just the living dead these days," he cracked, then quickly moved on to the next bit before that could fall, you know, badly. "Although they say that a lot of these so-called zombies were actually based off of mental patients."
He clapped his hands together. "They can be used as a metaphor for the mindless crowds, and for the fear of people with which we can no longer communicate. They are outside of us as much as they're of us."
He rattled off a few classic zombie films while he was at it. "...although I hear you had some sort of thing with them here last year," he hedged, "So if you don't want to sit around for the film or the discussion, feel free to leave."
[[wait for the ocd up, have at ]]
"The bodies of our dead come back to life with only a fraction of their brains left, if any," he started, "Mindless creatures milling about trying to take a bite out of you. In film, it depends on what you watch, the old ones had the regular shambling kind you could outrun, but we've developed this obsession with fast zombies as well."
He scraped his throat. "It started with Vodou in Haiti, in the way we know it today. They'd say a dead man could be revived by a Bokor to do his bidding, because he was mindless. A bit appropriate to more than just the living dead these days," he cracked, then quickly moved on to the next bit before that could fall, you know, badly. "Although they say that a lot of these so-called zombies were actually based off of mental patients."
He clapped his hands together. "They can be used as a metaphor for the mindless crowds, and for the fear of people with which we can no longer communicate. They are outside of us as much as they're of us."
He rattled off a few classic zombie films while he was at it. "...although I hear you had some sort of thing with them here last year," he hedged, "So if you don't want to sit around for the film or the discussion, feel free to leave."
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