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The Serpent and the Rainbow

1988

A scientist travels to Haiti to track down a mysterious powder rumored to turn people into zombies, and is drawn into a terrifying world of voodoo, political violence, and the boundary between life and death. Wes Craven's atmospheric horror, loosely based on a true account.

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