When you scream in your grave in a Haitian graveyard, does it really make a sound? In Wes Craven's "The Serpant and the Rainbow" (1988) he brings to life a near true story- well, the part with the zombies at least. The story of Christophe and Margarete is true- it has been documented that they were dead and found wandering the streets many moons later. One thing is truly certain, when a shaman tells you that you need to drink the liquid that makes you trip your balls off, you had better do it to get your spirit saving animal.
Wes Craven shows his familiar side, symbolism and visuals so wonderfully put together you would say that tree branch is actually a human hand. Is what we have decided in our own culture as an over flow from hell really a voodoo curse of the living dead?
Whenever i see cemeteries that are above ground I get a creepy feeling (I saw a TON of these while rebuilding houses in Honduras- they scared the shit out of me). This is seen most times in places with a high water table (New Orleans). One thing that did confuse me in this movie, was the vast abundance of these raised graves and all the "zombies" made in the movie seemed to be buried under ground. Was this done because of it being an American made movie for a greater effect? Was the book depicted in the same way I would love to find out but I am lazy and not in a reading mood this evening. I am sure, however that no matter which way a voodoo priest buries you it cant be good. I guess no one wants to be buried alive now do they... and there is a lot less dirt to crawl through when there is none of it on top of you.
I do hope that no goats were harmed in the making of this movie.
Picture of Puffer Fish from: www.nationalgeographic.com
No comments:
Post a Comment