The Serpent and the Rainbow (1987)

Wes Craven’s hallucinatory shocker follows a Harvard professor as he investigates a mysterious substance.
Inspired by the non-fiction book by Canadian anthropologist Wade Davis, Wes Craven’s oft-overlooked shocker follows a Harvard researcher who travels to Haiti to investigate a mysterious organic substance allegedly used to bring people back from the dead. What follows is a hallucinatory and idiosyncratic experience, which offers one of horror cinema’s most provocative and compelling investigations into the occult world of voodoo.
1987 USA
Directed by
Wes Craven
Produced by
David Ladd, Doug Claybourne
Featuring
Bill Pullman, Cathy Tyson, Zakes Mokae