DVD 98 mins IMDB
The Serpent And The Rainbow
Image (1988)
In Collection
#3

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Horror
USA  /  English

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

Director Wes Craven
Producer Rob Cohen; Robert Engelman
Writer Wade Davis; Richard Maxwell
Cinematography John Lindley
Musician Brad Fiedel

A scientist (Bill Pullman) is sent to Haiti to investigate a drug that is used in voodoo rituals to make people appear dead. He is aided by a local physician with whom he has a relationship. As he attempts to find the drug, he is under surveillance from the Haitian secret police. They do not wish him to find the drug and even kidnap him and torture him by strapping him naked to a chair and hold a hail over his genitals and drive it through his scrotum. He gets some of the drug to analyze and finds that it can make people appear dead but hours later they come out of it. This could lead to their being buried alive. He returns to Haiti but later is given the drug and taken for dead and himself buried alive. He is rescued and is able to show the police official who tortured him that he is vindicated.

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No. of Disks/Tapes 1