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The Serpent And The Rainbow 1988 1080p BluRay X265 Hevc 10bit AAC 2.0 Commentary-HeVK
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The Serpent and the Rainbow
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Theatrical Release: 1988-02-05 DVD Release: 2008-08-19 Torrent Release: 06-08-2022 by user
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Movie Genre:
Fantasy, Horror
Runtime:
98 min.
Parental Rating:
R
Awards:
1 nomination.
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DESCRIPTION
In 1985, after a successful research in Amazonas, Dr. Dennis Alan from Harvard is invited by the president of a Boston pharmaceutics industry, Andrew Cassedy, to travel to Haiti to investigate the case of a man named Christophe that died in 1978 and has apparently returned to life. Andrew wants samples of the voodoo drug that was used in Christophe to be tested with the intention of producing a powerful anesthetic. Dr. Alan travels to meet Dr. Marielle Duchamp that is treating Christophe and arrives in Haiti in a period of revolution. Soon Alan is threatened by the chief of the feared Tonton Macuse Dargent Peytraud, who is a torturer and powerful witch. Alan learns that death is not the end in the beginning of his journey to hell.
Sinopsis by IMDBThe Serpent and the Rainbow (1988), directed by Wes Craven, Shout! Factory remaster, encoded in 10 bit HEVC with AAC sound, including original theatrical stereo, commentary track, and English.
IMDb : https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096071/
Video encoded in two-pass 11.0 Mbps x265 10bit with the veryslow preset for archive quality image.
English subtitles OCRed, proofed and corrected.
Note : A less known Wes Craven film from his time in the wilderness between A Nightmare on Elm Street and Scream, it's not his greatest film, but it's pretty interesting. An attempt at taking Haitian voodoo and zombies seriously, it sometimes drifts into a didactic wannabe documentary style, and it would definitely have been improved by just straight removing Bill Pullman's voiceover narration, but the decision to set it during the last days of the Duvalier regime and making the very real Tonton Macoutes secret police the bad guys is inspired (if maybe a bit exploitative with the whole white savior narrative). It picks up considerably in the last 30 minutes, when things get weird and magical and the spirits seem to be definitely real instead of superstition, and I think all in all it comes out as a good film. Also, the late, great Zakes Mokae is so sinister and menacing in this that he's almost worth the price of admission all by himself.
A Harvard researcher returns from the Amazon only to be almost immediately sent to Haiti to investigate reports of an actual zombie, a man who died fifteen years previously and has now come back from the dead. Pharmaceutical company reps think some kind of revolutionary anesthetic might be involved, and they want a sample. Dr. Alan arrives in a country on the brink of revolution, gets involved with an attractive doctor at a local hospital, draws the attention of the secret police, and generally gets mixed up in a lot of shit. However, when he finally gets out of the country with a sample of the zombification powder, it turns out the black magic high priest who's also the head of the secret police isn't quite done with him yet, even at a distance, and he needs to go back to resolve everything once and for all.
This is a decent remaster, plagued by that prominent, desaturated grain that many mid-range remasters have. It otherwise looks fine and is pretty clean, though, the stereo track is clear enough, and Bill Pullman's commentary track is informative, if you didn't get enough of him talking over the movie from his narration on the actual soundtrack.
