| 1 | ->''"I am ignorant as most people on the facts of such religions, including the ancient Cuban cult in ''The Believers'', which keeps its diabolical gods a secret by disguising them as Catholic saints. I would like to imagine that most Caribbean religions, like most religions everywhere, are a comfort to their believers, and hold up a prospect of a saner, more joyous life.\ |
| 2 | I would like to believe that, but the movies give me little reason to. Every voodoo movie ever made has depicted [[ReligionOfEvil bloodthirsty cults of savagely sadistic murderers]], vengefully thirsting for innocent blood. There has been a lot in the papers recently about 'Arab-bashing', the practice of creating strong negative [[NationalStereotypes stereotypes of Arabs]] on TV and in the movies. I'm in agreement. But what about voodoo-bashing? Isn't it just as prejudicial?"'' |
| 3 | -->-- '''Creator/RogerEbert''' |
| 4 | |
| 5 | ->'''Remy:''' Voodoo is about honoring the dead and the ''Iwa''. The doll stuff is hoodoo rootwork, very misunderstood. And zombies aren't dead people.\ |
| 6 | '''UNITY:''' Course they are!\ |
| 7 | '''Remy:''' No, no, they're victims of TTX poisoning and--\ |
| 8 | '''UNITY:''' [[FrankensteinsMonster I'm like twenty dead people]]!\ |
| 9 | '''Remy:''' Sorry. My brain's still on "[[BrokenMasquerade before you guys showed up]]."\ |
| 10 | '''Sweetheart:''' "Boo hoo, I'm having a drastic paradigm shift!" Like we never get ''that!'' |
| 11 | -->-- ''Webcomic/SkinHorse'' |
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