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This week we’re joined once again by queer anthropologist Dr. Jamie Lawson to cover zombie films with a difference. Bill Pullman goes on a quest to find a revolutionary anaesthetic from Haiti in The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988), based on the book by Wade Davis. Next up, Mrs. Frenchie’s cat is missing somewhere in the memetic hellscape of Pontypool (2008), based on the novel by Tony Burgess. And finally a very special young girl is besotted with Gemma Arterton in The Girl with All the Gifts (2016) based on the novel by Mike Carey (includes spoilers for both). Also: Video game connections: Far Cry, Metal Gear & The Last of Us. Clairvius Narcisse. Jesus was not a Zombie. Snow Crash (again). Star Trek: Voyager: spirit animals. Welcome to Night Vale. Pontypool: the BBC radio play. The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis. Spell. Cerulean blue. Semantic saturation. Lawrence of Arabia (1962). Ophiocordyceps unilateralis. 28 Days Later (2002). George Monbiot. We play a game of “Brains?”