The Serpent and the Rainbow
- Original title
- The Serpent and the Rainbow
- Year
- 1988
- Running time
- 98 min.
- Country
- United States
- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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- Bill Pullman
- Cathy Tyson
- Zakes Mokae
- Paul Winfield
- Badja Djola
- Brent Jennings
- Conrad Roberts
- Theresa Merritt
- Michael Gough
- Paul Guilfoyle
- Dey Young
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- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Genre
- Horror. Fantasy | Voodoo. Zombies
- Synopsis
- Dennis is a Harvard anthropologist and is called up by his old professor with a job for a pharmaceutical company. He is to go to Haiti and investigate the rumors and folklore of zombies. A man who died 7 years earlier, was found wandering in the village. He is to go there, and find out how he has come back to life. Dennis goes to Haiti, and meets Marielle, a doctor who treats the mentally ill, and since zombies have no control over themselves, she gets a lot of them. Dennis and Marielle go on investigating, and they find out, people are turned into zombies through a powder through the skin. Dennis is a scientist, and doesn't really believe this. Little does he know, there are things about this voodoo powder that science will never know. All of this is going on as a strict dictatorship is running Haiti. The leader does not want Dennis investigating this. It is rumored he is a powerful black magician. What will Dennis learn after his decent into a mystical, dark world in Haiti?
- Rankings Position
- Awards
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1988: Saturn Awards (Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films): nominated to Best Make-Up.
- Critics' reviews
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"The result is an ambitious, entertaining--though not flawless--feat of the imagination, a highly visual and skillful blending of supernatural and political terror, high adventure and anthropology."
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