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Trailer—The Serpent and the Rainbow

The Serpent and the Rainbow

Dr. Dennis Alan (Bill Pullman) travels the world for Biocorp, Boston looking for native drugs. He ventures into Haiti during its time of Papa Doc turmoil to find the legendary zombie drug. He gets in trouble while he is there and at times loses reality. Interesting "zombie" film inspired by a true story. Good characters. Guide: No swearing. Sex and nudity (Cathy Tyson)

Much to my surprise, this film was actually an excellent horror flick, one that I plan to watch again some day. I am glad a friend of mine recommended the movie to me, I am just hoping others will find the time to look into it. Even more, if the story actually is based on a "true story", I will shudder at the thought of it...

Bill Pullman is good in this sort of horror movie and it has its interesting moments as Pullman's character tries to track down the various mysterious presented to him. However, other than the dream sequences that are mostly confined to the beginnings of the movie this movie does not offer up that many scares. Well, it does feature a rather good buried alive scenario, but after that the movie's conclusion is rather weak and almost out of place. I did not care for the whole getting your soul back plot point. Still, it is interesting enough to watch once and only once on my part. However, the dream sequences were the best part for me, to many other scenes simply made this movie seem to drag and become overlong. You will get to see a voodoo movie and sort of zombies, but not the type you will find in a George Romero undead flick and you will see a rather dumb lion scene near the end so I say give it a look it may be a movie more in the lines of what you like than I like.

The story of a chemist who is investigating a rumoured drug that brings people back from the dead. This is a great movie which keeps you in suspense right through. Not a horror movie but more of a suspense type movie that enters the world of black magic and voodoo. Very underrated movie and well worth watching, great plot and the story works.