The Serpent and the Rainbow with Bill Pullman: DVD Cover

    The Serpent and the Rainbow Director: Wes Craven Cast: Bill Pullman, Cathy Tyson, Zakes Mokae, Paul Winfield

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    • DVD Release Date: 09/23/2003
    • Original Release: 1987
    • Rating: Rated R
    • Sales Rank: 13,238

    Viewer Rating: (9 ratings)

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    Side #1 --
    1. Voodooism (Main Titles) [5:10]
    2. A Powerful Evil [6:28]
    3. Science and Medicine [3:18]
    4. Natural Possession [6:53]
    5. Zombie Powder [5:58]
    6. Dangerous Times [6:36]
    7. Bad Dreams [8:08]
    8. Marshal Law [3:57]
    9. No Tricks [5:29]
    10. "I Want to Hear You Scream" [3:37]
    11. Getting the Recipe Right [4:18]
    12. Unexpected Departing [6:59]
    13. Testing the Drug [5:19]
    14. "Don't Let Them Bury Me" [4:53]
    15. Back From the Dead [4:42]
    16. An Offering [5:35]
    17. Free Your Soul [6:11]
    18. End Titles [4:14]

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    Horror maven Wes Craven attempted a slight change of pace from his usual slasher movie milieu with this chiller loosely based on a true story. Bill Pullman stars as 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 rumored drug that could be used as a new breed of powerful anaesthetic. Once on the Caribbean isle, Alan is aided by a good voodoo priest or "houngan" (Paul Winfield) and his daughter (Cathy Tyson), who runs a local clinic. Alan's search also pits him against an evil houngan, Dargent Peytraud (Zakes Mokae). Peytraud also controls the Tonton Macoute (the Haitian secret police), who are involved with soon-to-be-deposed dictator "Baby Doc" Duvalier. The Serpent and the Rainbow was based on the book of the same name by Wade Davis, an ethnobotanist whose real-life hunt for the zombie drug was credited with cracking the medical mystery behind the myth. Karl Williams, All Movie Guide

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    Serpent and the Rainbowby Anonymous

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    August 09, 2008: i was born in haiti i left haiti at the age of 14 i heard everything about voodoo just the way it is in the movie but i never believed things like that can actually happened for real even though people said it's true. this movie show things exacly like i have told it freaked me out the first time i've seen it but it's a very good movie it help me realized how bad and discusting voodoo is. GOD BLESS

    Serpent and the Rainbowby Anonymous

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    August 29, 2006: Wes Craven has stepped outside his usual slash, mash and bash modus operandi in this completely engrossing and terror dripping film. Based on the book of the same name by Wade Davis, this tale scoots from South America to the United States and then to Haiti where Pullman's character is involved in searches for arcane traditional pharmacopia elements that can be utilized by his masters (back at the good old corporate monster in the USA) in order to MAKE THE BIG FREAKING BUCKS! Also of course as a byproduct, these breakthroughs will aid medical progress for humans everywhere. Wades nonfictional account (of the same name) is a fantastic skeleton for this film and lends the trappings and zappings of reality to this journey into third world human conditions as it actually brings to light one or more important scientific advances that otherwise haven't reaped their fair share of attention. Without spoiling the trip for you, let me say that this films deep dark characterizations, third world politics, scarey surprizes, creepy graveyard scenes roil into a rich torrential and cresendo ending which will hold you in a rare and tightening death grip for at least a little while.


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