I Walked with a Zombie
Historian and author Alexander Nemerov writes that "I Walked with a Zombie" uses stillness as a metaphor for slavery, "in ways that center on Carre-Four." The inanimate figurehead of "Ti-Misery" that appears in the film, a depiction of Saint Sebastian pierced with arrows, is said to have been taken from the slave ship that brought the first black slaves to the island on which the film is set. Writer Lee Mandelo characterizes the figurehead as a symbolic representation of "brutality and intense suffering".