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.
Practical Effects
That coffin scene will live rent-free in your amygdala forever.
Direction
Craven at his most restrained and therefore most disturbing.
Sound
The snake rattling score that sounds like your nervous system.
Director
Wes Craven
Bill Pullman
Dennis Alan
Cathy Tyson
Marielle Duchamp
Zakes Mokae
Dargent Peytraud
Paul Winfield
Lucien Celine
Brent Jennings
Louis Mozart
Conrad Roberts
Christophe
Badja Djola
Gaston
Theresa Merritt
Simone
Michael Gough
Schoonbacher
Paul Guilfoyle
Andrew Cassedy
Dey Young
Mrs. Cassedy
Aleta Mitchell
Celestine
William Newman
French Missionary Doctor
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Wade Davis, the real anthropologist this is based on, hated the film for turning his research into a horror movie and called it 'one of the stupidest movies ever made.'
The Haitian government actually banned this film for years, not for the zombie stuff but for its depiction of the Tonton Macoutes and political violence during the Duvalier regime.
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