THE SERPENT AND THE RAINBOW

Bill Pullman, Cathy Tyson

Universal; Directed by Wes Craven

Rated R; 98 minutes; 1988

Master of horror Wes Craven directs this terrifying film, based on the non-fiction book by Wade Davis and set in the mysterious world of voodoo in pre-Revolutionary Haiti, about the nightmarish journey of a Harvard anthropologist who uncovers a deadly powder with the power to transform human beings into zombies.