Spooky Season 

Black Zombie

Saturday, October 3, 2026 | 3:30pm

Little Theatre 1 (240 East Ave.)
Doors open at 3:00pm

Saturday, October 3, 2026 | 6:30pm

Little Theatre 1 (240 East Ave.)
Doors open at 6:00pm

Sunday, October 4, 2026 | 2:30pm

Little Theatre 1 (240 East Ave.)
Doors open at 2:00pm

Standard ticket prices
Tickets available online in advance, at our box office during open hours, or at the door (if tickets remain).

Black Zombie digs beneath the blood-soaked spectacle of modern horror to uncover the zombie’s buried and unsettling origins. Long before it became associated with flesh-eating ghouls, the zombie was a living metaphor for slavery: not a monster, but the ultimate victim of colonial power. A symbol of stolen agency was recast as an object of fear, while Black spiritual traditions were distorted, sensationalized, and erased.

Director Maya Annik Bedward traces the evolution of the zombie from colonial Haiti to contemporary Hollywood, reconsidering iconic films like White Zombie, Night of the Living Dead, and The Serpent and the Rainbow alongside archival footage, vérité scenes, and interviews with cultural historians, artists, and genre legends including Yves-Grégory Francois, Mambo Labelle Déesse, Slash, Tom Savini, and Zandashé Brown.

Part cultural reckoning, part horror remix, Black Zombie exposes how a figure born from enslavement, spiritual belief, and resistance was transformed into one of pop culture’s most profitable monsters.

Spooky Season

From crypts to cryptids, ghouls to ghastly gargoyles, The Little’s Spooky Season is here to fill your October with harrowing, haunting films and events! From classic horror to modern family-friendly fare, international frights to vampiric-vibes, we hope you join us to celebrate the most wonderful time of the year, here in the house of silent shadows!
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