The Serpent and the Rainbow
Don't Bury Me...I'm Not Dead!
1988 | 98m | English
Popularity: 7 (history)
| Director: | Wes Craven |
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| Writer: | Richard Maxwell, Wade Davis, Adam Rodman |
| Staring: |
| A Harvard anthropologist is sent to Haiti to retrieve a strange powder that is said to have the power to bring human beings back from the dead. In his quest to find the miracle drug, the cynical scientist enters the rarely seen netherworld of walking zombies, blood rites and ancient curses. Based on the true life experiences of Wade Davis and filmed on location in Haiti, it's a frightening excursion into black magic and the supernatural. | |
| Release Date: | Feb 05, 1988 |
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| Director: | Wes Craven |
| Writer: | Richard Maxwell, Wade Davis, Adam Rodman |
| Genres: | Horror, Thriller |
| Keywords | boston, massachusetts, voodoo, hallucination, amazon rainforest, graveyard, airliner, poison, revolution, surrealism, jungle, zombification, nightmare, cemetery, spider, buried alive, anthropologist, death certificate, based on novel or book, superstition, beheading, haiti, chained, rite |
| Production Companies | Universal Pictures |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $19,595,031
Budget: $11,000,000 |
| Updates |
Updated: Aug 02, 2025 (Update) Entered: Apr 13, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| Bill Pullman | Dennis Alan |
| Cathy Tyson | Marielle Duchamp |
| Zakes Mokae | Dargent Peytraud |
| Paul Winfield | Lucien Celine |
| Brent Jennings | Louis Mozart |
| Conrad Roberts | Christophe |
| Badja Djola | Gaston |
| Theresa Merritt | Simone |
| Michael Gough | Schoonbacher |
| Paul Guilfoyle | Andrew Cassedy |
| Dey Young | Mrs. Cassedy |
| Aleta Mitchell | Celestine |
| William Newman | French Missionary Doctor |
| Jaime Pina Gautier | Julio |
| Evencio Mosquera Slaco | Old Shaman |
| Kimberleigh Aarn | Margrite |
| Philogen Thomas | Priest |
| Ana Rosa Smith Avila | Mulatto Nurse |
| Francis Guinan | American Doctor |
| Diamanda Galás | Voices of the Dead |
| Sally-Anne Munn | Nurse / Intern |
| Jean-Baptiste Rosvelt | Black Waiter |
| Robert De James | Old Lame Peasant |
| Jackson Delgado | Possessed Dancer |
| Barbara Guillaume | Mozart’s Whore |
| Betty Garcia Rodriguez | Pretty Whore |
| Luis Tavare Pesquera | Kyle Cassedy |
| Claudia Pimentel | Old Crone |
| Michael Jackson | Newscaster |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Richard Maxwell | Screenplay |
| Glenn Farr | Editor |
| David Brisbin | Art Direction |
| Dianne Crittenden | Casting |
| Peter Mitchell | Costume Design |
| David Nichols | Production Design |
| Michelle Bühler | Key Makeup Artist |
| Michael Bennett | Unit Production Manager |
| Curtis Burch | Production Executive |
| Juanita Diane Feeney | Production Manager |
| Jaime Pina Gautier | Production Manager |
| Robert Engelman | First Assistant Director |
| Anthony Cecere | Stunt Coordinator, Stunts |
| Peter Chesney | Special Effects Coordinator |
| Jeffrey S. Farley | Special Effects Makeup Artist |
| James Kagel | Special Effects Makeup Artist |
| David LeRoy Anderson | Special Effects Makeup Artist |
| Jim McPherson | Special Effects Makeup Artist |
| Lance Anderson | Special Effects Makeup Artist |
| Michael Shawn McCracken | Special Effects Makeup Artist |
| Wes Craven | Director |
| Brad Fiedel | Original Music Composer |
| Wade Davis | Book |
| Robert Hallowell II | Key Hair Stylist |
| Debbie Lynn Ross | Stunts |
| Irving E. Lewis | Stunts |
| Eric Chambers | Stunts |
| Perry Nichols | Stunts |
| Mark Orrison | Stunts |
| Al Lee | Stunts |
| Eric Mansker | Stunts |
| Ray Woodfork | Stunts |
| Marvin Walters | Stunts |
| Adam Rodman | Screenplay |
| John Lindley | Director of Photography |
| Rosemary Brandenburg | Set Decoration |
| Dane Farwell | Stunts |
| George P. Gregg | Second Assistant Director |
| Jay Boekelheide | Supervising Sound Editor, Sound Designer |
| Peter Amundson | Additional Editing |
| Gary Gutierrez | Visual Effects Supervisor |
| José Luis Ortega | Additional Second Assistant Director |
| Miguel Heded | Additional Second Assistant Director |
| Felipe Vicini | Additional Second Assistant Director |
| Carmen Soriano | Script Supervisor |
| Sue Parker | Location Casting |
| Heig Beck | Extras Casting Assistant |
| Sarah C. Koeppe | Casting Assistant |
| Bill Ohanesian | Assistant Editor |
| Mike Murphy | Assistant Editor |
| Andy Keesee | Assistant Art Director |
| Dawn Snyder | Set Designer |
| Jonathan Craven | Set Dresser |
| Daniela Prati | Set Dresser |
| Charles Stewart | Property Master |
| Linda Kiffe | Assistant Property Master |
| Ken Ferris | Camera Operator |
| Lawrence Karman | First Assistant Camera |
| Findlay Bunting | Second Assistant Camera |
| Gordon Miller | Second Assistant Camera |
| Henry Lynk | Additional Camera |
| Alan Caso | Steadicam Operator |
| Gary Farr | Still Photographer |
| Rob Cohen | Second Unit Director |
| George Koblasa | Additional Photography |
| Len Gittleman | Additional Photography |
| Don Summer | Sound Mixer |
| Steve Sollars | Boom Operator |
| Christine Lemoine | Utility Sound |
| Patrick Reddish | Gaffer |
| Bruce McCleery | Best Boy Electric |
| Tim Pershing | Key Grip |
| Daniel Pershing | Best Boy Grip |
| Leonard MacDonald | Special Effects Makeup Artist |
| Shawn Barry | Costume Supervisor |
| Bruce D. Hayes | Key Special Effects |
| Emmet Kane | Special Effects Technician |
| Bob Ahmanson | Special Effects Technician |
| Sandy Stewart | Special Effects Assistant |
| John Benson | Supervising Sound Editor |
| Sara Roberts | Sound Effects Editor |
| Bruce Fortune | Dialogue Editor |
| Cliff Latimer | Dialogue Editor |
| Dorian Harris | ADR Editor |
| John Morris | ADR Editor |
| Mary Helen Leasman | Foley Editor |
| Allan K. Rosen | Supervising Music Editor |
| Carolina Beroza | Assistant Sound Editor |
| Thomas O'Shea | Assistant Sound Editor |
| Laura Graham | Assistant Sound Editor |
| Christine Danelski | Assistant Sound Editor |
| Amy Vincent | Assistant Sound Editor |
| Margaret Bentley | Assistant Sound Editor |
| Donald Ortiz | Assistant Sound Editor |
| Paul Cope | Assistant Sound Editor |
| Andy Aaron | Sound Effects |
| Dan Gleich | Sound Effects |
| Barbara Harris | ADR Voice Casting |
| Gregg Barbanell | Foley |
| Robin Harlan | Foley |
| Gary C. Bourgeois | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Dean Okrand | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Chris Carpenter | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Tim Boyle | Scoring Mixer |
| Japhet Asher | Visual Effects Producer |
| Rick Fichter | VFX Director of Photography |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Keith Barish | Executive Producer |
| Robert Engelman | Co-Producer |
| Victoria Kluge | Associate Producer |
| David B. Pauker | Associate Producer |
| Doug Claybourne | Producer |
| Rob Cohen | Executive Producer |
| David Ladd | Producer |
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Popularity History
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| 2024 | 4 | 16 | 24 | 12 |
| 2024 | 5 | 19 | 25 | 14 |
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| 2025 | 3 | 5 | 18 | 1 |
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