Film CreditsDirector: Wes Craven Starring:
Bill Pullman, Cathy Tyson, Zakes Mokae, Paul Winfield, Brent Jennings
On DVD:September 23, 2003
In Theaters: February 5th, 1988
Dennis Alan (Bill Pullman), a Harvard researcher, is sent to Haiti by a pharmaceutical company to investigate the zombie legend and any possible connection it might have to a rumored drug that could be used as a new breed of powerful anaesthetic.
Alan is soon aided by a good voodoo priest Lucien Celine (Paul Winfield) and Dr. Marielle Duchamp (Cathy Tyson), who runs an over-crowded, but under-staffed medical clinic. Alan's search also pits him against Dargent Peytraud (Zakes Mokae) the head of the Tonton Macoute (the Haitian secret police) who is also an evil voodoo priest.
Alan barely manages to escape Haiti and return to the United States, however something pulls him back to the island to face the nightmares Peytraud has only begun to create for him.
| FYI | The Serpent and the Rainbow was based on the book of the same name by Wade Davis, an ethnobotanist whose real-life hunt for the zombie drug was credited with cracking the medical mystery behind the myth.
