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The Serpent and the Rainbow is a 1988 American horror film directed by Wes Craven and starring Bill Pullman.
Feb 5, 1988 · The Serpent and the Rainbow: Directed by Wes Craven. With Bill Pullman, Cathy Tyson, Zakes Mokae, Paul Winfield. An anthropologist goes to Haiti after hearing rumors about a drug used by black magic practitioners to turn people into zombies.
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- Fantasy, Horror
- Wes Craven
- 1988-02-05
In a time of social and political unrest in Haiti, anthropologist Dennis Alan (Bill Pullman) travels to the torn country to study a Voodoo drug used in religious practices to turn victims into...
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- Wes Craven
- R
- Bill Pullman
Wes Craven (The People Under the Stairs, Shocker) directs this terrifying story of one man's nightmarish journey into the eerie and deadly world of voodoo. A Harvard anthropologist (Bill Pullman...
Often a pawn in a greater game, Alan must decide what is science, what is superstition, and what is the unknown in a anarchistic society where police corruption and witch-doctory are commonplace ...
- 1 min
- 363.8K
- Rotten Tomatoes Classic Trailers
The Serpent and the Rainbow: A Harvard Scientist's Astonishing Journey into the Secret Societies of Haitian Voodoo, Zombies, and Magic is a 1985 book by anthropologist and researcher Wade Davis. He investigated Haitian Vodou and the process of making zombies.
BUY The Serpent and the Rainbow. Trailer. Plot. MAY INCLUDE SPOILERS. Ethnobotanist/anthropologist Dennis Alan, in visiting the Amazon, receives a potion connecting him to his protective totem (a jaguar) through a series of visions, and is later guided by a jaguar from the Rainforest itself.