Wes Craven’s splendid The Serpent and the Rainbow is a story of voodoo and black magic filmed in mysterious Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Craven is the director of various successful low-budget and cultist horror movies, including The Hills Have Eyes, A Nightmare on Elm Street and People Under the Stairs. Like George Romero and Dario Argento, Craven is an exponent of the modern horror genre: he also bears a striking resemblance to a tall Edgar Allan Poe.