Lunging from the darkness, zombies as a media character serve to address social problems. During the Great Depression, the first zombie film, "White Zombie" used fear and horror to address the subjugation of the labor class. A megalomaniacal villain, Bela Lugosi, turns humans into zombies to slave in his sugar mill. The white zombie showed the picture of America's resentment through zombies related to alienated and mindless labor in a capitalist economy of that time in united states. During the World War II, fears of Nazism rose in the society, a horror production "King of the Zombies" used the zombie monsters as a metaphor for the effects of Nazi propaganda. Until the 1940's, zombies were largely a reflection of the fears of voodooism and darkness that is perceived the to originate from Haitian culture. Later, the social issues and events gave the creatures a meaningful symbolism. By 1940, the zombie was mere a piece of Haitian folklore which was later evolved into a widespread cultural phenomenon in movies and publications. Soon zombies became the part of bands, radio talk shows, and club routines. It was the time of great tensions and uncertainty. The world war two was on the rise and with it, the risk of mass genocide was invigorating fear. The scientific advancements, like the space race and nuclear weapon, filled American society with anxieties over…show more content… In King of the Zombies, released in 1941, an aviator crashes in the Caribbean and encounters a foreign spy who then exploited zombie darkness to coax war intelligence from a US admiral. Likewise, in the movie "Revenge of the Zombies", a mad evil doctor with the use of dark magic recruits an army of zombies to ensure the victory of the German empire. Later, the atom strike of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 and the first U.S.S.R atomic bomb test in 1949 integrated of nuclear radiation and communism which began to manifest in
