Jordan Peele and N. K. Jemisin on the subversive goals of Black horror in their new anthology, Out There Screaming. In the last scene of the classic 1968 zombie movie Night of the Living Dead, the hero, Ben, comes out of a cellar with a gun, and the armed vigilantes mistake him for a zombie.
https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/archive/2023/10/what-scares-jordan-peele/675777/