An American anthropologist travels to Haiti to retrieve a strange powder that is said to have the power to bring human beings back from the dead. In his quest to find the miracle drug, the cynical scientist enters the rarely-seen netherworld of walking zombies, blood rites, and ancient curses.
Read the Empire Movie review of The Serpent And The Rainbow. Entertaining and ambitious horror hokum, slightly tarnished by a disappointingly obvious "shock...
Wes Craven's "The Serpent and the Rainbow" (citywide) does for the old Caribbean zombie movie what Steven Spielberg's "Raiders of the Lost Ark" did for the s...
Craven's tale of voodoo and revolution on the island of Haiti is like a bad Graham Greene adaptation seen under the influence of hallucinogenic substances. A Ha
Wes Craven's The Serpent and the Rainbow is a better-than-average supernatural tale [inspired by Wade Davis' book] that offers a few good scares but gets bog...