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Although it's occasionally overwhelmed by excessive special effects, The Serpent and the Rainbow draws on a chilling atmosphere to deliver a intelligent, politically informed story.
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Offers a few good scares but gets bogged down in special effects. September 25, 2007 | Full Review…
Offers a few good scares but gets bogged down in special effects.
Variety Staff
Genuinely frightening. September 25, 2007 | Full Review…
Genuinely frightening.
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Unfortunately, the political parallel between the ideological repression of Baby Doc's regime and the stultifying effects of the zombifying fluid is only sketchily developed, leaving us with a series of striking but isolated set pieces. February 9, 2006 | Full Review…
Unfortunately, the political parallel between the ideological repression of Baby Doc's regime and the stultifying effects of the zombifying fluid is only sketchily developed, leaving us with a series of striking but isolated set pieces.
Derek Adams
The Serpent and the Rainbow has a screenplay that often breaks its spell. August 30, 2004 | Rating: 2.5/5
The Serpent and the Rainbow has a screenplay that often breaks its spell.
Janet Maslin
[Craven] seems wiser and more story-conscious -- but thankfully still full of the same surprises. January 1, 2000 | Full Review…
[Craven] seems wiser and more story-conscious -- but thankfully still full of the same surprises.
Desson Thomson
The Serpent and the Rainbow is uncanny in the way it takes the most lurid images and makes them plausible. January 1, 2000 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
The Serpent and the Rainbow is uncanny in the way it takes the most lurid images and makes them plausible.
Roger Ebert
Between colorful folklore, romance, and political critique, the terrifying intrigue is at times interesting and at others surprising. [Full Review in Spanish] April 9, 2020 | Full Review…
Between colorful folklore, romance, and political critique, the terrifying intrigue is at times interesting and at others surprising. [Full Review in Spanish]
Ángel Luis Inurria
A mix of horror and psychological thriller, we become enmeshed in Pullman's struggle, and as things get worse for him, the audience stays invested and hopeful he will overcome the horrors surrounding him. August 2, 2019 | Full Review…
A mix of horror and psychological thriller, we become enmeshed in Pullman's struggle, and as things get worse for him, the audience stays invested and hopeful he will overcome the horrors surrounding him.
Leslie Combemale
A fascinating trip into a portion of Haitian culture, which Craven uses as an excellent critique of America's incessant focus on or obsession with imperialism. May 1, 2019 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
A fascinating trip into a portion of Haitian culture, which Craven uses as an excellent critique of America's incessant focus on or obsession with imperialism.
C.H. Newell
Mixing religious beliefs with real life zombies is a mixture that could have turned hokey real quick. And adding the political strife into the plot made the story somehow relatable or at least identifiable. March 4, 2019 | Full Review…
Mixing religious beliefs with real life zombies is a mixture that could have turned hokey real quick. And adding the political strife into the plot made the story somehow relatable or at least identifiable.
Michelle Sabato
An admirable effort to put the voodoo back in zombie mythology ... anyone interested in a different take on a zombie tale should certainly give it a look-over. February 28, 2016 | Full Review…
An admirable effort to put the voodoo back in zombie mythology ... anyone interested in a different take on a zombie tale should certainly give it a look-over.
Austin Trunick
Better (certainly classier) than most films directed by the late Wes Craven, this zombie flick still registers as an also-ran in the horror sweepstakes. February 27, 2016 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
Better (certainly classier) than most films directed by the late Wes Craven, this zombie flick still registers as an also-ran in the horror sweepstakes.
Matt Brunson
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