Zombier: Myter, medier og mikrober

(Show is in Danish)

With the film Night of the Living Dead, George R. Romero immortalised the flesh-eating undead in 1968. Long before that, the myth of the reanimated dead had made its way from Haiti’s voodoo religion into Western popular culture – and nature itself offers horrifying real-world examples of zombifying fungi and parasites. Together with anthropologist Inger Sjørslev, visual popular culture researcher Steen Ledet Christiansen and parasitologist and virologist Simone Nordstrand Gasque, we sink our teeth ravenously into the zombie as a phenomenon. We cover the historical origins, the various incarnations of the living dead across film, television and literature, and the horrifyingly hair-raising real examples found in nature.