Hmm…believe it or not..it is base on true story.
Based On A True Story: The Serpent & The Rainbow
Before Night of the Living Dead, zombies weren’t a terribly
common horror movie trope. It’s weird to think about this since
they’re so common these days. To an obnoxious degree, even! Got a
few bucks and want to make a horror movie on the weekends? Zombie
flick. Do it. There’s a legion of fans out there so stupid and
ga-ga for zombies that you could make a movie about people shooting
zombies in for an hour and a half and the fanboy legion of doom
would hardly notice that nothing else happens. Before George Romero
came along and revolutionized horror, though, zombies were an
obscure bit of island folklore and nothing more. Unlike the zombie
apocalypse, the old notion of the voodoo zombie has not been done
to death and some of my favorite spookfests walk in the footsteps
of White Zombie, the classic Lugosi horror that is as heavy on
Bela’s intense presence and overacting as it is on atmosphere.
The idea of the voodoo zombie, a body stuck somewhere between
life and death, able to think and speak but unable to do much more
than you are told by the person who made you. It’s a pretty fucked
up concept in horror and is ripe for a comeback. Somebody make this
happen. It’s about on par with the idea of being buried alive
which, coincidentally, is a part of making an actual zombie. With A
Nightmare On Elm Street, Wes Craven managed to revive the dying
slasher movie and breathed new life into horror, which was already
beginning to sputter out after a flood of cut-rate slasher flicks
drowned any momentum the genre may have gained in the wake of
Halloween. Unfortunately, he dropped the ball with just about
everything he directed in the aftermath of that hit. The Hills Have
Eyes sequel is dud of epic proportions and Deadly Friend is
incomprehensible. To break out of this trail spin, he took on a
book by Wade Davis, an ethnobotanist who spent time in Haiti while
researching voodoo zombies. The result was The Serpent and the
Rainbow.
http://www.cinema-suicide.com/2011/10/14/based-...
The Serpent and the Rainbow
The Serpent and the Rainbow is a 1988 horror film directed by
Wes Craven and starring Bill Pullman. The script by Richard Maxwell
and Adam Rodman is loosely based on the non-fiction book of the
same name by ethnobotanist Wade Davis, wherein Davis recounted his
experiences in Haiti investigating the story of Clairvius Narcisse,
who was allegedly poisoned, buried alive, and revived with a herbal
brew which produced what was called a zombie.
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WADE DAVIS
http://www.daviswade.com/
