...a mostly worthless piece of work that’s a strong contender for Craven’s very worst film.

| Original Score: .5/4 | Jul 7, 2023

The Serpent and the Rainbow still makes for a mostly satisfying horror-viewing experience...

| Sep 14, 2022

Lethargic due to its incoherence, while the only thing that truly instills fear is Bill Pullman, the Apollonian protagonist with the worst acting I think I've ever seen in a professional film. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jun 28, 2022

Between colorful folklore, romance, and political critique, the terrifying intrigue is at times interesting and at others surprising. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Apr 9, 2020

A mix of horror and psychological thriller, we become enmeshed in Pullman's struggle, and as things get worse for him, the audience stays invested and hopeful he will overcome the horrors surrounding him.

| Aug 2, 2019

A fascinating trip into a portion of Haitian culture, which Craven uses as an excellent critique of America's incessant focus on or obsession with imperialism.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 1, 2019

Mixing religious beliefs with real life zombies is a mixture that could have turned hokey real quick. And adding the political strife into the plot made the story somehow relatable or at least identifiable.

| Mar 4, 2019

An admirable effort to put the voodoo back in zombie mythology ... anyone interested in a different take on a zombie tale should certainly give it a look-over.

| Feb 28, 2016

Better (certainly classier) than most films directed by the late Wes Craven, this zombie flick still registers as an also-ran in the horror sweepstakes.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 27, 2016

A solid supernatural voodoo chiller that finely mixes fantasy with real terror to provide the required horror pic scares.

| Original Score: B | Feb 28, 2015

Flavorful Grand Guignol

| Apr 1, 2010

Despite the strongly emphasized exoticness its Haitian scenery, The Serpent and the Rainbow may be Wes Craven's most pedestrian film.

| Original Score: C+ | Oct 26, 2007

Offers a few good scares but gets bogged down in special effects.

| Sep 25, 2007

Craven combines the terrifying dream sequences of A Nightmare on Elm Street with the subtle and evocative atmospherics of Val Lewton.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 25, 2007

Genuinely frightening.

| Sep 25, 2007

Unfortunately, the political parallel between the ideological repression of Baby Doc's regime and the stultifying effects of the zombifying fluid is only sketchily developed, leaving us with a series of striking but isolated set pieces.

| Feb 9, 2006

A lame documentary-flavored horror story.

| Original Score: C | Jan 25, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 19, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 18, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 19, 2004