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The Serpent and the Rainbow
Don't bury me... I'm not dead!
Don't bury me... I'm not dead!
Horror, Thriller - 1988
6.5
N/A
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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 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.
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Rated:
R
Runtime:
98 min
Release date:
5 Feb 1988
Country:
US
Languages:
English, French, Spanish
Budget:
$7,000,000
Revenue:
$19,595,031
Awards:
1 nomination

Top Critics Reviews

rotten:
Offers a few good scares but gets bogged down in special effects.
– Variety Staff,
Variety,
25 Sep 2007
fresh:
Genuinely frightening.
– Jonathan Rosenbaum,
Chicago Reader,
25 Sep 2007
rotten:
Unfortunately, the political parallel between the ideological repression of Baby Doc's regime and the stultifying effects of the zombifying fluid is only sketchily developed, leaving us with a series of striking but isolated set pieces.
– Derek Adams,
Time Out,
9 Feb 2006
rotten:
The Serpent and the Rainbow has a screenplay that often breaks its spell.
– Janet Maslin,
New York Times,
30 Aug 2004
fresh:
The Serpent and the Rainbow is uncanny in the way it takes the most lurid images and makes them plausible.
– Roger Ebert,
Chicago Sun-Times,
1 Jan 2000
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