Blood of the Zombie places a visitor's uncertainty inside a world of family secrets and ritual threat. The title makes the body a site of contamination and inherited danger. Its interest lies in the way a seemingly stable household can become difficult to read once the visitor depends on people who control the explanations. Watch the contrast between what is openly performed as ritual and what happens through ordinary authority, isolation and withheld knowledge. The two forms of power need not be as separate as they first appear.