The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988)

02/05/1988 (US) • 1h 38m

Horror, Thriller

Don't Bury Me...I'm Not Dead!

Overview

A Harvard anthropologist is sent 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. Based on the true life experiences of Wade Davis and filmed on location in Haiti, it's a frightening excursion into black magic and the supernatural.

Top Billed Cast

Bill Pullman

Dennis Alan

Cathy Tyson

Marielle Duchamp

Zakes Mokae

Dargent Peytraud

Paul Winfield

Lucien Celine

Brent Jennings

Louis Mozart

Conrad Roberts

Christophe

Michael Gough

Schoonbacher


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Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

$11,000,000.00

Revenue

$19,595,031.00

Keywords

based on novel or book

nightmare

boston, massachusetts

poison

superstition

cemetery

voodoo

revolution

beheading

spider

hallucination

surrealism

haiti

buried alive

amazon rainforest

jungle

chained

anthropologist

graveyard

zombification

rite

death certificate

airliner

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