Zombie

Part of Haitian Voodoo is the belief in Zombies. Clairvius Narcisse is an example of the Zombie myth. A priest injected Narcisse with a hallucinogen, deadening his brain function. He became a victim of forced labor until the priest died. Now clear-minded, he returned home to recount his experience. Zombie-ism is used as a tool to force victims into degrading conditions. It creates fear and dread in those, who do not understand psychotropic drugs, and their ability to alter perceptual capacity.

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The Serpent and the Rainbow is a 1988 Haitian film directed by Wes Craven. This horror flick was inspired by Voodoo rituals of Haiti. The film is about a Boston based man, Dennis Alan, who was sent to Haiti by a pharmaceutical firm to find the drug that was used by Voodoo practitioners to make their victims look dead and the victims were buried and later resurrected. Alan did find the drug but fell victim of the Voodoo rituals and later fought back evil Voodoo leader with help of his protective totem, the jaguar spirit, which he obtained in Amazon.

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