{"id":13816,"date":"2020-11-01T20:30:53","date_gmt":"2020-11-02T01:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=13816"},"modified":"2020-11-01T19:54:36","modified_gmt":"2020-11-02T00:54:36","slug":"the-serpent-and-the-rainbow-1988-wes-craven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/13816","title":{"rendered":"The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988, Wes Craven)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Pullman goes to Haiti to investigate a zombie rumor with the help of a local doctor &#8211; but he didn&#8217;t expect the DOCTOR to be a PRETTY LADY, he tells us in voiceover.  Pullman has been good in comedies (<em>Spaceballs<\/em> the year before this) and dramas (or whatever <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/129\">Lost Highway<\/a><\/em> is) but I don&#8217;t buy him for a second here.  The pretty lady is Cathy Tyson of <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/8845\">Mona Lisa<\/a><\/em>, and she and Paul Winfield almost make the movie worth watching.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image20\/serpentrain2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>The day after our guy makes sweet love to the pretty doctor, the government declares martial law and to show him they&#8217;re serious the local badman (S African Zakes Mokae of <em>Dust Devil<\/em> and <em>Dilemma<\/em>) pounds a nail through Pullman&#8217;s scrotum, but Pullman persists, and gets Mozart (<em>Lodge 49<\/em> star Brent Jennings, I didn&#8217;t recognize him!) to mix him up some zombie powder to bring home.  Everybody either dies, or dreams they&#8217;ve died, or comes back to life, and the silly explanatory titles at the beginning and end trying to frame this buncha nonsense as news\/science don&#8217;t help anything.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image20\/serpentrain1.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Pullman goes to Haiti to investigate a zombie rumor with the help of a local doctor &#8211; but he didn&#8217;t expect the DOCTOR to be a PRETTY LADY, he tells us in voiceover. Pullman has been good in comedies (Spaceballs the year before this) and dramas (or whatever Lost Highway is) but I don&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[357,2733,2353,2001,100],"class_list":["post-13816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1980s","tag-bill-pullman","tag-haiti","tag-wes-craven","tag-zombies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13856,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13816\/revisions\/13856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}