In promotions for the new AMC show The Walking Dead, the iconic shot centers around the protagonist riding horseback into the deserted city of Atlanta. With abandoned cars littering one side of the highway (the occupants having long fled), the lone man trudges toward the skyscrapers in the distance. What awaits him in the city?... Read More

It has been said that “when hell is full, the dead will walk the earth.� One people and one nation deserve credit for delivering a frightening genre full of suspense, chills and gruesome images of undead carnage: Haitians. The idea of reanimated corpses – the “living undead� – finds origins in the same land where... Read More

Sadly, news headlines commanding attention to a "Haiti in Crisis" and a "Nightmare in Haiti" after the devastating earthquake ravaged Port-au-Prince don't qualify as a "man-bites-dog" story. Haiti has long been a nation where a “nightmarish� existence is the perpetually state of life for the residents of that failed state. Indeed, images being broadcast from... Read More