The Serpent and the Rainbow
The movie follows Dennis Alan, a Harvard researcher sent to Haiti by a pharmaceutical company to investigate the zombie legend and any possible connection it might have to a rumor about a drug used by black magic practitioners to turn people into zombies. In his quest to find the miracle drug, the cynical scientist enters the rarely seen netherworld of walking zombies, blood rites and ancient curses.
28 April 1949, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
28 July 1955, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, USA
24 September 1924, Emporia, Virginia, USA
22 May 1941, Los Angeles, California, USA
April 01, 2010
Flavorful Grand Guignol
October 26, 2007
Despite the strongly emphasized exoticness its Haitian scenery, The Serpent and the Rainbow may be Wes Craven's most pedestrian film.
September 25, 2007
Craven combines the terrifying dream sequences of A Nightmare on Elm Street with the subtle and evocative atmospherics of Val Lewton.
February 27, 2016
Better (certainly classier) than most films directed by the late Wes Craven, this zombie flick still registers as an also-ran in the horror sweepstakes.
August 30, 2004
The Serpent and the Rainbow has a screenplay that often breaks its spell.
February 28, 2016
An admirable effort to put the voodoo back in zombie mythology ... anyone interested in a different take on a zombie tale should certainly give it a look-over.
January 01, 2000
Take a powerful, revealing nonfiction book, sift through it for its most cliche'd elements and turn it into a terror film and you've got The Serpent and the Rainbow.
September 25, 2007
Genuinely frightening.
February 28, 2015
A solid supernatural voodoo chiller that finely mixes fantasy with real terror to provide the required horror pic scares.
February 09, 2006
Unfortunately, the political parallel between the ideological repression of Baby Doc's regime and the stultifying effects of the zombifying fluid is only sketchily developed, leaving us with a series of striking but isolated set pieces.
January 01, 2000
[Craven] seems wiser and more story-conscious -- but thankfully still full of the same surprises.
September 25, 2007
Offers a few good scares but gets bogged down in special effects.
