Ossorio’s Zombie: A National Myth in a Complex Time
摘要
This chapter will analyze Ossorio’s tetralogy of the “muertos sin ojos (“blind dead) from the 1970s to point the different images and narrative devices used to develop something vernacular via a mythopoetic that offered small changes from film to film, but keeping the central story coherent and stable. Below the typical textures of zombie tropes, Ossorio offered Gothic reflections on the Spain of the 1970s under Francisco Franco’s dictatorship. It is this conversation with its zeitgeist that made the films so unique and its monsters so peculiar. As such, this chapter also offers a brief study on how the blind undead become a national myth rather than just a successful franchise.