The Serpent and the Rainbow
1988 · USA · 98m
Wes Craven in Haiti, adapting a real ethnobotanist's account of the drug behind zombie folklore.
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5 films
Wes Craven in Haiti, adapting a real ethnobotanist's account of the drug behind zombie folklore.
A nuclear family against a family mutated by nuclear testing. By the end there is no difference in method.
Craven remaking Bergman on no money. To avoid fainting, keep repeating: it's only a movie.
Craven's best idea: a killer who gets you where you cannot stay awake to avoid him.
Characters who know the rules. Worked exactly once and produced a decade of films that mistook referencing for wit.