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List Price: $14.98Amazon.com's Price: $11.49 You Save: $3.49 (23%)Prices subject to change.
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780783255316
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0783255314
Label: Universal Studios
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Universal Studios
Region Code: 1
Release Date: September 23, 2003
Running Time: 98 minutes
Sales Rank: 11060
Studio: Universal Studios
Theatrical Release Date: February 05, 1988
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Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
Eight years before he scored a phenomenal hit with Scream, horror master Wes Craven made a worthy effort to "legitimize" horror with this chilling supernatural thriller, based on the best-selling book by Wade Davis. More ambitious than most horror films, this one allowed Craven to generate compelling plausibility with the fact-based story of a Harvard researcher (Bill Pullman) who travels to Haiti to procure a secret voodoo powder that places people into a state of simulated death. His investigation into the hidden world of black magic grows increasingly dangerous until he's caught in a living nightmare--a potentially deadly predicament that inspired the film's advertising tag line: "Don't bury me... I'm not dead!" Craven pays particular attention to authentic details of Haitian society and the role voodoo plays in Haitian culture, and the film gains additional atmosphere from location shooting in Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Craven would, of course, continue to thrive by making more "conventional" horror films including Scream, but this remains a fascinating departure for one of the genre's most celebrated directors. - -Jeff Shannon
Average Rating: 
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Although slightly distorted by Hollywood, this video tells the amazing and true story about an Anthropologist named Wade Davis who was solicited by pharmaceutical companies in the United States to find the Haitian Zombie powder for use in American operating rooms as anesthesia.
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Very bad. I stopped watching it about half way through. The story is not very believable. Maybe I just wasn't in the mood for it. There seemed to be a lot of yelling, very drawn out yelling. The story is very slow and it lost my interest.
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..and being that this movie is close to twenty years old makes it possible. The book passed through several hands as a film property and eventually ended up in those of Wes Craven. His name was most certainly at the forefront of horror directors. The result: ugly stereotypes, anorexic socio-political allegory, scant scares, and Bill Pullman - that's "The Serpent and the Rainbow" in a nutshell. Based on Wade Davis' novel, Wes Craven's lame documentary-flavored horror story follows anthropologist Dennis ... Read More
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Bill Pullman (you may know him from Independence Day) stars a Harvard Anthropologist who is sent to Haiti to investigate some of the holistic drugs and plants that the natives use. While in Haiti he is given a strange mixture that shows him his sacred animal and it guides him back to saftey after he has horrific visions. Once he returns to the States he is hired by a desperate drug company to return to Haiti and find a plant that is supposed to bring the dead back to life. When he returns to Haiti he is ... Read More
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This film is a VERY loose adaptation of the non-fiction book of the same name. While the book was a work of serious scholarship, the film is, well, a Hollywood movie. Nothing wrong with that, of course, it's just that the book and film share a title and not much else. That said, the movie has more going for it than against it, and I would recommend it (but not for the kiddies). The greatest strength of the movie is the performance by Zakes Mokae as the sadistic chief of Haiti's not-so-secret police. It ... Read More
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