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The Serpent and the Rainbow is a 1988 American horror film directed by Wes Craven and starring Bill Pullman.
Feb 5, 1988 · The Serpent and the Rainbow: Directed by Wes Craven. With Bill Pullman, Cathy Tyson, Zakes Mokae, Paul Winfield. An anthropologist goes to Haiti after hearing rumors about a drug used by black magic practitioners to turn people into zombies.
The Serpent and the Rainbow: A Harvard Scientist's Astonishing Journey into the Secret Societies of Haitian Voodoo, Zombies, and Magic is a 1985 book by anthropologist and researcher Wade Davis. He investigated Haitian Vodou and the process of making zombies.
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.
In a time of social and political unrest in Haiti, anthropologist Dennis Alan (Bill Pullman) travels to the torn country to study a Voodoo drug used in religious practices to turn victims...
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Feb 8, 2016 · A Harvard anthropologist (Bill Pullman, Lake Placid, Independence Day) is sent to Haiti to retrieve a strange powder that is said to have the power to bring...
In the movie, Pullman plays a cross between William Hurt and Indiana Jones. He's a tall, good-looking, sensitive intellectual who is called upon to wrestle leopards, battle corpses, confront an evil voodoo leader and eventually be buried alive along with a deadly spider that makes itself cozy on his paralyzed eyeball.
