The Serpent And The Rainbow
by Wes Craven
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Actor: Bill Pullman, Brent Jennings, Cathy Tyson, Paul Winfield, Zakes MokaeDirector: Wes Craven
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language); French (Original Language); Spanish (Original Language); French (Dubbed); Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 98 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-09-23
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Universal Studios
Movie Reviews of The Serpent And The Rainbow
Movie Review: The Serpent and the Rainbow
Summary: 5 Stars
Although slightly distorted by Hollywood, this video tells the amazing and true story about an Anthropologist named Wade Davis who was solicited by pharmaceutical companies in the United States to find the Haitian Zombie powder for use in American operating rooms as anesthesia.
Summary of The Serpent And The Rainbow
Eight years before he scored a phenomenal hit with Scream, horror master Wes Craven made a worthy effort to "legitimize" horror with this chilling supernatural thriller, based on the best-selling book by Wade Davis. More ambitious than most horror films, this one allowed Craven to generate compelling plausibility with the fact-based story of a Harvard researcher (Bill Pullman) who travels to Haiti to procure a secret voodoo powder that places people into a state of simulated death. His investigation into the hidden world of black magic grows increasingly dangerous until he's caught in a living nightmare--a potentially deadly predicament that inspired the film's advertising tag line: "Don't bury me... I'm not dead!" Craven pays particular attention to authentic details of Haitian society and the role voodoo plays in Haitian culture, and the film gains additional atmosphere from location shooting in Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Craven would, of course, continue to thrive by making more "conventional" horror films including Scream, but this remains a fascinating departure for one of the genre's most celebrated directors. - -Jeff ShannonHorror DVD Video
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