The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988) (Shout! Factory Remastered 1080p BluRay x265 HEVC 10bit AAC 2.0 Commentary) Wes Craven Bill Pullman Cathy Tyson Zakes Mokae Paul Winfield Brent Jennings Conrad Roberts Aleta Mitchell Badja Djola Michael Gough Paul Guilfo
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The Serpent and the Rainbow
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.
The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988), directed by Wes Craven, Shout! Factory remaster, encoded in 10 bit HEVC with AAC sound, including original theatrical stereo, commentary track, and English.
IMDb : https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096071/
Video encoded in two-pass 11.0 Mbps x265 10bit with the veryslow preset for archive quality image.
English subtitles OCRed, proofed and corrected.
Note : A less known Wes Craven film from his time in the wilderness between A Nightmare on Elm Street and Scream, it's not his greatest film, but it's pretty interesting. An attempt at taking Haitian voodoo and zombies seriously, it sometimes drifts into a didactic wannabe documentary style, and it would definitely have been improved by just straight removing Bill Pullman's voiceover narration, but the decision to set it during the last days of the Duvalier regime and making the very real Tonton Macoutes secret police the bad guys is inspired (if maybe a bit exploitative with the whole white savior narrative). It picks up considerably in the last 30 minutes, when things get weird and magical and the spirits seem to be definitely real instead of superstition, and I think all in all it comes out as a good film. Also, the late, great Zakes Mokae is so sinister and menacing in this that he's almost worth the price of admission all by himself.
A Harvard researcher returns from the Amazon only to be almost immediately sent to Haiti to investigate reports of an actual zombie, a man who died fifteen years previously and has now come back from the dead. Pharmaceutical company reps think some kind of revolutionary anesthetic might be involved, and they want a sample. Dr. Alan arrives in a country on the brink of revolution, gets involved with an attractive doctor at a local hospital, draws the attention of the secret police, and generally gets mixed up in a lot of shit. However, when he finally gets out of the country with a sample of the zombification powder, it turns out the black magic high priest who's also the head of the secret police isn't quite done with him yet, even at a distance, and he needs to go back to resolve everything once and for all.
This is a decent remaster, plagued by that prominent, desaturated grain that many mid-range remasters have. It otherwise looks fine and is pretty clean, though, the stereo track is clear enough, and Bill Pullman's commentary track is informative, if you didn't get enough of him talking over the movie from his narration on the actual soundtrack.
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Audio #1 : AAC LC / 257 kb/s / 2 channels / Original theatrical stereo / English / *Default
Audio #2 : AAC LC / 128 kb/s / 2 channels / Commentary with actor Bill Pullman / English
Text #1 : SRT / 44 b/s / English
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00:00:00.000 : Chapter 1
00:08:53.199 : Chapter 2
00:14:58.523 : Chapter 3
00:22:33.394 : Chapter 4
00:29:59.464 : Chapter 5
00:40:57.497 : Chapter 6
00:50:30.736 : Chapter 7
00:58:26.503 : Chapter 8
01:07:00.058 : Chapter 9
01:15:31.569 : Chapter 10
01:21:55.911 : Chapter 11
01:30:48.526 : Chapter 12
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