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**Drugsonl** · 11-29-2010, 02:44 AM

Informative article, but she completely left out the Duvaliers and their use of Voodoo for their purposes. I'd be curious how the beliefs and practices of Voodoo were affected by this. Was there a lasting impact on the beliefs and practices of Voodoo?

The documentary mentioned in the post before was great, and very enlightening. As well, I'm curious as to how the rest of the west's thinking regarding Voodoo was influenced by the Duvalier regimes. It seems as if horror film as a genre developed in the United States at the same time that Papa Doc was in power, and with his regime being so close to the United States, there had to have been some influence.

I'm going to read the assata shakur link and reply.

horror genre existed before Duvalier...he took office in 1957...what happens is, the US occupied Haiti from 1915-34...and soldiers/personnel stationed there who saw some of the rituals and imagery of voudou wrote about it..and that's what brought into into the american and western popular culture.
Haiti was pretty isolated before that, but because of the revolution and defeating the French...she had always been vilified in the western press.

Duvalier's "veil" was lifted by the film, The Comedians...the brutality, the megalomania, the incompetence.

11-29-2010, 02:44 AM	#29
Drugsonl Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 531 Senior Member	Informative article, but she completely left out the Duvaliers and their use of Voodoo for their purposes. I'd be curious how the beliefs and practices of Voodoo were affected by this. Was there a lasting impact on the beliefs and practices of Voodoo? The documentary mentioned in the post before was great, and very enlightening. As well, I'm curious as to how the rest of the west's thinking regarding Voodoo was influenced by the Duvalier regimes. It seems as if horror film as a genre developed in the United States at the same time that Papa Doc was in power, and with his regime being so close to the United States, there had to have been some influence. I'm going to read the assata shakur link and reply. horror genre existed before Duvalier...he took office in 1957...what happens is, the US occupied Haiti from 1915-34...and soldiers/personnel stationed there who saw some of the rituals and imagery of voudou wrote about it..and that's what brought into into the american and western popular culture. Haiti was pretty isolated before that, but because of the revolution and defeating the French...she had always been vilified in the western press. Duvalier's "veil" was lifted by the film, The Comedians...the brutality, the megalomania, the incompetence.
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