Review of The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988) by Giffy G — 16 Jan 2009
This was a horrible movie. I had trouble getting past the movie's racism. The plot might as well have been "Haitians are frightening" instead of "zombies are frightening." The bad guys in the movie were the one bad Haitian priest and the Ton Ton Macoute.
Don't get me wrong: the Ton Ton Macoute was a bad, bad thing, but a movie about zombies should not rely on racial stereotypes and Haitians with guns to scare me. Zombies are scary enough. I also severely disliked Pullman's character, and really didn't care if he got turned into a zombie.
The movie tried to walk a tightrope between "zombies are real" to "zombification is a bizarre but explainable medical process," but it fell down FAR too heavily on the latter, so the moments where it embraced the former were just confusing.
I didn't enjoy this movie.
This review of The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988) was written by Giffy G on 16 Jan 2009.
The Serpent and the Rainbow has generally received positive reviews.
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