the Influence of darkness ( The Snake and the Rainbow ) is an American film of horror carried out by Wes Craven, left in 1988.

It is based on a documentary work of the Canadian ethnobotanist Wade Davis, The Serpent and The Rainbow (which gave its original title to film), a study of the practices Vaudou in Haiti, in particular the process of Zombi fication.

Synopsis

Denis Allan, a graduate anthropologist of Harvard, is of return to Boston after a long stay in Amazonia, where it could study and try out the drugs used by the chamanes. A representative of a pharmaceutical company then proposes to him to go in Haiti, in search of a hypothetical substance used by the wizards voodoos for zombifier their victims. Indeed, if the rumors on the zombis are founded and that such a drug exists, its applications in the field of the anesthesia would be more interesting.

Allan thus goes on the island, where he will be confronted with the dark power of the Voodoo, his influence on the Haitian company, and with use that make of them the henchmen of the dictator Jean-Claude Duvallier.

Data sheet

• Title: the influence of darkness
• original Title: The Snake and the Rainbow
• Realization: Wes Craven
• Scenario: Richard Maxwell, Adam Rodman, according to the book of Wade Davis.
• Production: Keith Barish, Doug Claybourne, Rob Cohen, Robert Engelman and David Ladd
• Production company: Universal Pictures
• Budget: 7 million dollars
• Music: Brad Fiedel
• Photography: John Lindley
• Assembly: Glenn Farr
• Decorations: David Nichols
• Artistic director: David Brisbin
• Costumes: Peter Mitchell
• Country of origin: the United States
• Format: Colors - 1,85:1 - 35 mm
• Kind: Fantastic, horror
• Lasted: 98 minutes (1. 38)
• Comings out date: February 5th 1988 (the United States), May 11th 1988 (France)
• Film prohibited with less than 12 years at the time of its exit in France

Distribution

• Bill Pullman : Refusals 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 : Célestine

Around film

• turning took place mainly in Haiti, but the political situation and the degradation of the social climate forced the team to finish it in the close Dominican Republic.
• the original soundtrack of film, published only out of vinyl except for some CD, fact part of rarest and sought.

External bond

• the influence of darkness on Internet Movie Database

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