In Ryan Coogler's hit horror film, the vampires are more than monsters, they teach us about history, death, and repression.

That’s according to Jerry Rafiki Jenkins, the author of “The Paradox of Blackness in African American Vampire Fiction.” “We need to move from the perspective that these vampires are just a ...

after he was stabbed with an ancient blood-sucking African tribe’s dagger, right before George off’d himself. Oh, and that same dagger turned him into a vampire. No biggie. Ganja is soon ...

Unlike the typical understanding of how vampires are made, Gunn’s film depicts their creation through a violent stabbing with an ancient African dagger, which leaves its victims with an ...

Coogler thus uses two forms of traditional music – African-American blues and Irish folk – as a way to illuminate the respective painful colonial pasts that the humans and the vampires share.

The vampire is, in a real sense, the dead hand of oppression, reaching up from our dark history to throttle the strivings of two African American men. Additionally, his vampires also tap what Jung ...