(S2, E15) Semi-Sentient Zombies Looking For Love

This week on Pop Culture Boner, we’re taking a deep dive on zombies. We trace their origin from Haiti to Hollywood and take a look a why we have so many different types. How did we go from shuffling corpse to rage fuelled meatsack to organised corpse syndicate?

You can find a list of references here:

• Cecilia Petretto (2006, The Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, 1) - Attack of the Living Dead Virus: The Metaphor of Contagious Disease in Zombie Movies

• William Seabrook (Wikipedia)

• Haitian Voudo (Wikipedia)

• Night of the Living Dead (1968)

• Dawn of the Dead (1978)

• Day of the Dead (1985)

• 28 Days Later (2002)

• Warm Bodies (2013)

• Army of the Dead (2021)

You can download the full transcript here.