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The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988)
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5 February 1988 (USA)
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Tagline:
Don't bury me...I'm not dead!
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An anthropologist goes to Haiti after hearing rumors about a drug used by black magic practitioners to turn people in zombies. full summary | add synopsis
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Haiti
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Magic
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Anthropologist
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Woman On Top
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1 nomination
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(7 articles)
Donna Davies' 'Zombiemania' documentary on Starz! Tonight!
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An entertaining, detailed thriller
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Bill Pullman | ... | Dennis Alan | |
| Cathy Tyson | ... | Marielle Duchamp | |
| Zakes Mokae | ... | Dargent Peytraud | |
| Paul Winfield | ... | Lucien Celine | |
| Brent Jennings | ... | Louis Mozart | |
| Conrad Roberts | ... | Christophe | |
| Badja Djola | ... | Gaston | |
| Theresa Merritt | ... | Simone | |
| Michael Gough | ... | Schoonbacher | |
| Paul Guilfoyle | ... | Andrew Cassedy | |
| Dey Young | ... | Mrs. Cassedy | |
| Aleta Mitchell | ... | Celestine | |
| William Newman | ... | French Missionary Doctor | |
| Jaime Pina Gautier | ... | Julio | |
| Evencio Mosquera Slaco | ... | Old Shaman |
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The Wes Craven's Serpent and the Rainbow (Australia)
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98 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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Iceland:16 |
Singapore:M18 |
Argentina:18 |
Australia:M |
France:-12 |
Norway:18 |
UK:18 (cut) |
USA:R |
West Germany:18 |
Finland:K-18 |
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Author Wade Davis agreed to sell the book rights on the condition that Peter Weir direct and Mel Gibson star. Neither man had any involvement in the project.
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Crew or equipment visible: Just before the spider starts crawling on Bill Pullman's face, you can see the crew member in the left background who placed it there.
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Dennis Alan:
Christophe, I need you to remember what happened before you died.
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Movie Connections:
Featured in "The Directors: The Films of Wes Craven (#1.4)" (1999)
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Madame Marcell
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One of Wes Craven's best, "Serpent and the Rainbow" is as much a psychological thriller as a horror movie. Some horror fans may find it too slow (it takes its sweet time to come to a climax) but it's worth it... the journey is entertaining and interesting. This is a polished, professionally filmed movie with higher production values than the average for its genre.
I've never seen a film before that went quite so in-depth into the subject of voodoo. Filmed on location in Haiti, this movie goes into a lot of detail about various voodoo practices and introduces the voodoo versions of the good and evil magician, the houngon and the bocor. If you have any interest at all in this subject matter (or the supernatural in general), I recommend the movie on that basis alone.
Acting is uniformly solid throughout, if nothing really outstanding. We do not come to care very deeply about these characters, so their trials, tribulations and deaths do not bother us much... but Craven's attention to detail really shows, and there isn't a moment of this movie that lacks entertainment value. 7/10.