Black Zombie

Plot

From the flickering screens of Hollywood horror, to the haunted cane fields of colonial Haiti, Black Zombie unearths the buried origins of the zombie, reclaiming it as a symbol of survival and spiritual resistance.

About Black Zombie

Black Zombie is a 2026 Canadian documentary film written and directed by Maya Annik Bedward. The film profiles the roots of zombie mythology in Haitian Vodou, exploring the ways in which its evolution from a folkloric metaphor for slavery into a trope of horror and monster fiction have distorted and disrupted Black history. The film premiered on March 13, 2026, at the South by Southwest Film & TV Festival, and had its Canadian premiere on April 24 at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival. In June 2026, Kino Lorber acquired U.S. distribution rights to the film.

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