Writer and film-maker Hamilton Morris has been fascinated with the ‘zombie-making’ legends of Haiti since middle-school when he first saw Wes Craven’s movie The Serpent and Rainbow (based on the book of the same name by anthropologist Wade Davis). Now, as part of his web video series “Hamilton’s Pharmacopeia”, Morris has made a full-length documentary about the phenomenon and his quest to find out more, titled Nzambi:
You’ll find a nice little interview with Morris over at Boing Boing filling in some of the background details on why he made the documentary and how he views the phenomenon of zombie-making.
Previously on TDG:
