The Serpent and the Rainbow ((film)
The Serpent and the Rainbow is
a 1988 American horror film, directed by Wes Craven and starring Bill Pullman.
The film is very loosely based on a non-fiction book by ethnobotanist Wade Davis,
dealing with his experiences in Haiti as he investigates the story of Clairvius
Narcisse, allegedly poisoned, buried alive, and given an herbal brew whose effects
mimicked zombification.
Tagline: Don't Bury Me, I'm Not Dead!.
Cast
Bill
Pullman - Dennis Alan
Cathy Tyson - Marielle Duchamp
Zakes Mokae - Dargent
Peytraud
Paul Winfield - Lucien Celine
Brent Jennings - Louis Mozart
Conrad Roberts - Christophe
Badja Djola - Gaston
Theresa Merritt - Simone
Michael Gough - Schoonbacher
Paul Guilfoyle
- Andrew Cassedy
Dey Young - Mrs. Cassedy
Aleta Mitchell
- Celestine
William Newman - French Missionary Doctor
Jaime Pina Gautier
- Julio
Evencio Mosquera Slaco - Old Shaman
Wade Davis has frequently voiced his displeasure with the final film. "When I wrote my first book, 'The Serpent and the Rainbow', it was made into one of the worst Hollywood movies in history. I tried to escape the hysteria and the media by going to Borneo."
Plot
Dennis Alan, an ethnobotanist/anthropologist from Harvard University, narrowly escapes the Amazon Jungle at the beginning and returns to Boston. Word of his exploits gets around and he is approached by a large pharmaceutical corporation looking to investigate a drug that is part of the Voodoo religion in Haiti that they want to acquire in order to mass produce. They send him to Haiti to find out about the drug, but he winds up learning more about zombification instead. In essence, the drug is an alternate and less dangerous method of anesthesia.
When Alan arrives
in Haiti the country is in the middle of a revolution of sorts. The government
is taking anyone prisoner who they think is against the current political powers.
He eventually meets another doctor who helps him research and investigate the
so-called zombies. What he finds is the evil that lurks behind the Voodoo religion
and the destruction it can cause to the human mind.
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