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Summary: Serpent and the Rainbow
Review: Wes Craven's Serpent and the Rainbow has just one small problem, it goes from being a horror film to a Drama. But don't begin deducting point's just for that, Serpent is a good movie to watch, The movie shows the exploits of a Harvard researcher journying into Haiti to retrieve a mystical Zombie potion, rumored to bring the dead back to the world of the Living, on this journey danger is following closely behind him, in the form of a secret police, and their leader, a man who steals the souls of his enemies, Wes Craven really brought out elements of Human nature at it's worst and Best, this combined with his unique sense of Horror seems to really balance out the film. the Character's are also people that you begin to care about, or hate but either way you want to see what happens to them in this based on true event's novel adaption.
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Summary: Haiti scary movie
Review: When i watched this movie for the first time, years ago, i was amazed. I have watched it again a few times since, and I'm still amazed. This movie not only deals with the plot of an American doctor galavanting all over the globe to find that one mirical drug, but also deals with how a different culture percieves what the drug can do to their own people. It's another religion vs. science movie. I love these types of movies because the subject matter can be explained scientifically but yet leaves that hint of *what if?*
For example, when the good Dr. was participating in the making of the drug, certain rituals were used to make sure the drug would work properly. Now, a logically minded person would know that those rituals could have been left out, but there is the hint that they shouldn't be because dire concequences would befall the user.
All of the hallucinations could be explained by the drug in some form or fashion, but the mystery wouldn't have gotten solved if he hadn't hallucinated in the first place.
Overall i found this movie thrillingly intense and intresting. The cast was perfect for the plot. I wouldn't change a thing.
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Summary: Myth or Science?
Review: When i watched this movie for the first time, years ago, i was amazed. I have watched it again a few times since, and I'm still amazed. This movie not only deals with the plot of an American doctor galavanting all over the globe to find that one mirical drug, but also deals with how a different culture percieves what the drug can do to their own people. It's another religion vs. science movie. I love these types of movies because the subject matter can be explained scientifically but yet leaves that hint of *what if?*
For example, when the good Dr. was participating in the making of the drug, certain rituals were used to make sure the drug would work properly. Now, a logically minded person would know that those rituals could have been left out, but there is the hint that they shouldn't be because dire concequences would befall the user.
All of the hallucinations could be explained by the drug in some form or fashion, but the mystery wouldn't have gotten solved if he hadn't hallucinated in the first place.
Overall i found this movie thrillingly intense and intresting. The cast was perfect for the plot. I wouldn't change a thing.
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Summary: A Hallucinatory Adventure!
Review: Yes, the movie does take some liberty (lots of it) with the book, _The Serpent and the Rainbow_ by Wade Davis, but I liked it anyway. I first saw this movie when it came out originally. I liked it then, and since I've recently been reading the book, I decided to watch it again.A Harvard scientist is sent to Haiti to discover the secrets of zombification, after having undergone a hallucinatory encounter with the forces of evil in the Amazon. Once in Haiti, he explores the underground world of Voodoo with the help of a psychiatrist contact. He ends up contracting for a special zombi-making powder with the help of a Voodoo shaman. However, a corrupt government official (also a black magician) discovers this and intimidates the scientist into leaving (after a harrowing scene in which he punctures his scrotum with a large spike, <ouch!>). He leaves Haiti, but not before the Voodoo shaman who promised him the powder secures it for him. Back in the United States, he discovers that the powder's effects are indeed promising. (He intends to use this to create a new form of anesthesia.) However, he is continually plagued with visions and nightmares involving his own death and burial and the corrupt black magician. He decides to return to Haiti to confront this evil yet again. In Haiti again, he is immediately taken by a friend who offers him magical help. But, the evil magician discovers this and has the doctor sprayed with powder, turning him into a zombie himself. He appears to die and is buried. Another zombie hears his screams as he awakens from his agonizing catatonia in the graveyard and digs him up. Finally, a revolution occurs in Haiti, and in a confrontation between good versus evil the doctor must meet the magician in battle, who now controls his soul. This movie offers a bizarre interpretation to the phenomenon of zombification. (Of course, for the scientific approach read the book.) It is entertaining and worth watching. The movie has tried to capture something primal, and that is man's fear of the great beyond, death. It leads us to ask the question of what is death and can death be conquered. By far the most disturbing scene in the movie is where the scientist is buried alive with a tarantual in his coffin. The idea of being buried alive is so horrendous that it operates on the nether-regions of man's unconscious. This is what makes the scene so disturbing to watch.
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