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The Serpent and the Rainbow |
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The Serpent and the Rainbow
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by Universal Studios
Sales Rank: 83223
Price: $14.99
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A Harvard anthropologist is sent to Haiti to retrieve a strange powder that is said to have the power to bring humans back from the dead. In his quest, the cynical scientist enters the rarely seen netherworld of walking zombies and ancient curses.
Viewer Reviews
This is my favorite Wes Craven film, a very scary and intelligent film based on a factual account. Many of Craven's films (especially his early ones) have had either bad acting, poor production values, but have all had a creepy, scary quality to them that is impossible to shake. This film has very good acting, incredible atmosphere (it's shot on location in Haiti), and incredible tension. Craven doesn't go for cheap laughs here. He takes his subject very seriously, and doesn't make light of it. There's no self consciousness or the self referentialness of his latter Scream movies. Craven has said that strange phenomena happened during the shooting of this film to those in the crew who mocked the idea of the native religion, but Craven respected it deeply and nothing unique happened to him. I've always had mixed feelings about Craven, liking this film, liking some others (Last House on the Left, the original The Hills Have Eyes), and hating others (I was never a fan of the Nightmare on Elm Street, and I hate self referential films like Scream in general, but Craven didn't write the script). This is one of his best films, and the one I like the most.
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