The figure of the zombie that entered the popular imagination with the publication of William Seabrook's (1929)--during the American occupation of Haiti--still holds cultural currency around the world. This book calls for a rethinking of zombies in a sociopolitical context through the examination of several films, including (1932), (1935), (1943) and (1988). A 21st-century film from Haiti, , is also examined. A reading of (2005), a film about the female tourist industry in the Caribbean, explores zombification as a consumptive process driven by capitalism.