Afro-Haitians

He said, "After, that after watching, uh, that, uh, no room for, uh..." Let's see.

Before he said, "No room for Black Haitians." Yep, I know what you're talking about.

I saw the pictures.

Uh, let's see, let's see, let's see what Bobby's actually said.

I think it was called Kyogen, the dance that we did.

Afro-Haitian dance and, um, Alexander technique, Stanislavski technique.

I learned what a monologue was from going from after my, uh, audition.

Like, I didn't even know what I was doing.

In it, an evil voodoo master, played by Lugosi, uses a potion to kill a young woman who's buried and then resurrected as a zombie.

While it's not as well known as others, it's widely seen as the first movie to take Afro-Haitian zombie folklore and use it as the basis for a film.

This folklore originated in the 17th and 18th centuries when Haiti was known as Saint-Domingue and was governed by France.

African slaves were shipped over to work on sugar fields, and the brutality of slavery in Saint-Domingue during the French occupation was unmatched.

The primary goal and activity of voodoo is to sevi iwa, serve the spirits, to offer prayers and perform various devotional rites directed at God and particular spirits in return for health, protection, and favor.

Spirit possession plays an important role in Afro-Haitian religion, as it does in many other world religions.

During religious rites, believers sometimes enter a trance-like state in which the devotee may eat and drink, perform stylized dances, give supernaturally inspired advice to people, or perform medical cures or special physical feats.

These acts exhibit the incarnate presence of the Iwa within the entranced devotee.