Anesthetic Zombanol: The Horror Effect in the Fabrication of Evil as a Representation of the Other in Movies Based on a True Story

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  • Werner Almeida Alves UFRGS

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https://doi.org/10.22456/2236-6385.139235

Résumé

This article approaches the claim of truth in the representation of zombies and elements of the Haitian folklore recreated in the American imaginary as a way to reinforce the evil Other through the fictionalization of historical accounts in movies under the umbrella label “Based on a True Story”. The movies in question are White Zombie (1932) and The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988) which claim to be based on factual accounts reported in the non-fiction books respectively The Magic Island, by Seabrook, and The Serpent and the Rainbow, by Davis, as a technique to amplify the horror effect in their viewers, and thus, resulting in the reinforcement of that very representation of the evil Other in the mainstream culture.

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Biographie de l'auteur-e

Werner Almeida Alves, UFRGS

Doutorando em Letras pelo Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Mestre em Letras pela mesma Instituição.

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Publié-e

2024-03-26

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ALVES, Werner Almeida. Anesthetic Zombanol: The Horror Effect in the Fabrication of Evil as a Representation of the Other in Movies Based on a True Story. Cadernos do IL, [S. l.], n. 66, p. 213–229, 2024. DOI: 10.22456/2236-6385.139235. Disponível em: https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/cadernosdoil/article/view/139235. Acesso em: 22 août. 2026.

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Artigos de estudos literários