Haiti is 85% Catholic and 110% Voodo

Wes Craven's THE SEPRENT AND THE RAINBOW
                              4 Voodotastic Cheeses

        CHARACTERS
        Denis Allan: Anthropologist Heros guy      Has his soul stolen
        Marielle: Love intrest        Guides Denis around Haiti
        Dargent: Bad Voodo Priest          Special Police     All around Arse
        Lucien: Information provider
        Mozart: Makes Zombie Powder
        Christophe: Was zombified

        Plot
        Woah, I actually liked this movie more for it's plot and premise than
        for it's scares. The movie was actually filmed Haiti so the
        surroundings felt genuine and all the voodo used wasn't out of place.

        Denis is sent on a job to Haiti to find a drug that is saidto simulate death.
        He does go on this job and in Haiti he meets Merielle.He also hooks up
        with Mozart and Lucien. He's looking for Christophe, because he
        can still talk after being zombified. He finds out too much and winds
        up in a trail of lies, magic, and death.

       In doing so he ends up getting on the bad side of Dargent who decides
       to torture him, frame him for murder, posses him, and make his life a
       living hell. After having many horrible and frightning visions he ends up
       getting the powder from Mozart, but is framed for murder and forced
       back to America. He decides to go back because Dargent is still trying
       to kill him with voodo, and he has to save Merielle.

      SFX
      The Speciel Effects are actually believable even though they're
      far fetched. They work because the complex animated effects are
      used at a minimum. The creature effects are really creepy. In one scene
      where Denis is having a dream his room suddenly closes and turns into
      a coffin. It then starts to fill up with blood while he's being buried alive.
      The effects they use to echieve things like this work wonderfuly.

              GORE
               A bunch of rotting corpses         Decapitated heads
               A pig with it's blood painted on the walls
               Blood          Scary zombie arms

              What I Learned
               Bill Pullman (Denis) can act well.
               Haiti is 85% Catholic and 110% voodo. (That's in the movie)
               Voodo priests are not people who you want to be angry at you.
                Just because pictures are on the back of the video box doesn't mean
                            that they're in the movie.

         Bottom Line
      THE SERPENT AND THE RAINBOW is probably the Wes Craven
      movie with the most plot. It engrossed me with a sense of dread
      from start to finish. It was a smart thing on Mr. Craven's part to not fill
      the movie with gore; that would have detracted from the overall
      seriousness of the film. This is amore adult horror film than many
      because it relies on fearful imagery and plot to keep the watcher
      entertained, instead of cheep thrills and gore. I think that it is good
      when movies like this are made; it reminds you that all horror movies
      aren't just mindless flicks. The CHEESE KING says that
      THE SERPENT AND THE RAINBOW is a must view. It may be hard
       to find though, becuase the only place that I have seen it is at my
       local library.