'Black Zombie' Director Maya Annik Bedward On The 10-Year Journey To Uncover The Zombie’s Origins

'Black Zombie' Director Maya Annik Bedward On The 10-Year Journey To Uncover The Zombie’s Origins

Black Zombie isn’t your standard genre documentary. While horror stalwarts like Tom Savini and Tananarive Due appear as talking heads, the documentary instead takes a historical and social approach as it traces the cinematic zombie back to its Haitian origins and Black spiritual traditions. That has everything to do with the documentary’s writer-director,  Maya Annik […] The post ‘Black Zombie’ Director Maya Annik Bedward On The 10-Year Journey …

‘Black Zombie’ Takes a Thoughtful Look at the Troubled History of a Horror Monster

The essential new documentary from Maya Annik Bedward opens September 11.

Black Zombie — Maya Annik Bedward [Review]

In Haitian Vodou, “turning someone into a zombie is like putting them back into slavery… forever.” This is among the opening lines of Maya Annik Bedward’s documentary Black Zombie, a challenge not just to the exploitative 1932 film White Zombie, but to the broader legacy of the zombie in cultural consciousness — a legacy fueled [...]

BLACK ZOMBIE Review: Engaging, Insightful Work of Cultural Criticism

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 abo…

‘Black Zombie's' Maya Annik Bedward: Horror is So Much Bigger Than the Scares

Maya Annik Bedward spoke to Dread Central about the inspiration for ‘Black Zombie’ and African Traditional Religions on the silver screen.