Really good zombie movie based on true (!) history

The Walking Dead has been one of the dominant series of the past decade and was instrumental in Boom in new zombie adventures responsible. In the meantime, however, the franchise seems to have run out of steam: numerous spin-offs are trying to continue the story by hook or by crook.

If you are looking for a breath of fresh air in the zombie genre, you have to look in a different direction. Bertrand Bonello has one with Zombi Child fascinating post created over the living dead. However, it comes less as a classic horror film and more as a mysterious coming-of-age story.

Contrasting program to The Walking Dead: Zombi Child combines horror and coming-of-age

Zombi Child tells about the young Fanny (Louise Labeque). She attends the French elite school Maison d’éducation de la légion d’honneur and sets a good example for her classmates. When a group of girls gather in the art room at night to to perform a voodoo ritualshe lets herself be seduced by it.

You can watch the trailer for Zombie Child here:

However, Fanny is not the only outsider who is drawn into the conspiratorial circle. The new classmate Mélissa (Wislanda Louimat), whose family comes from Haiti and has been practicing voodoo rituals for generations, gets lost in the darkness of the night that in spooky daydreams transforms.

Bonello has little interest in mouldering bodies shuffling around. His attention is on the Roots of the zombie film and how he can connect these with the fears and longings of young people. The result is a quiet foray into a familiar genre that suddenly doesn’t seem so familiar anymore.

Particularly exciting: Bonello combines the action, which is set in the present, with a look into the past. In 1962, Zombi Child explores the real-life case of a man turned into a zombie during a voodoo ritual: Clairvius Narcisse (Mackenson Bijou) turned into one deathlike trance shifted.

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