VHS Vault: The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988)

“Don’t bury me… I’m not dead!”

Wes Craven ditches Freddy’s dreamworld for something far darker, a voodoo-soaked nightmare based loosely on real events. Anthropologist Dennis Alan (Bill Pullman, forever twitchy) travels to Haiti in search of a drug that turns people into zombies… and finds a whole lot more than he bargained for.

This movie is not about the jump scares; it’s all about the vibe: sweaty paranoia, political unrest, and bone-deep dread. Bonus points for some of the most hallucinatory horror visuals you’ll find on tape.

📼 Shelf Notes:

• Directed by: Wes Craven

• Released: February 5, 1988

💀 Vault Rating:
4 out of 5 graveyard shovels for vibes, voodoo, and that funeral scene.

📺 Still haunting around? Try to track it down on Shudder, Prime, or that dusty corner of your local video store that somehow still exists.