- HD 1080
- Runtime: 98m.
- Status: Released
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- Languages: en
- Country: United States of America
- Director: Wes Craven
- Stars: Bill Pullman, Cathy Tyson, Zakes Mokae, Paul Winfield, Brent Jennings
- keywords: based on novel or book, nightmare, boston, massachusetts, poison, superstition, cemetery, voodoo, revolution, beheading, spider, hallucination, surrealism, haiti, buried alive, amazon rainforest, jungle, chained, anthropologist, graveyard, zombification, rite, death certificate, airliner
- Production_studio: Universal Pictures
- Slogan: Don't Bury Me... I'm Not Dead!
- The The Serpent and the Rainbow is featured in the top rankings of 1988
- #16 in Top Thriller Movies of 1988
- #19 in Top Horror Movies of 1988
A Harvard anthropologist is sent to Haiti to retrieve a strange powder that is said to have the power to bring human beings back from the dead. In his quest to find the miracle drug, the cynical scientist enters the rarely seen netherworld of walking zombies, blood rites and ancient curses. Based on the true life experiences of Wade Davis and filmed on location in Haiti, it's a frightening excursion into black magic and the supernatural.
