Captain Peytraud in Wes Craven's THE SERPENT AND THE RAINBOW

About this episode

The episode discusses Wes Craven's film THE SERPENT AND THE RAINBOW, exploring themes of voodoo and political unrest in Haiti.

We wrap up our IT'S VOODOO, BABY triple feature with Wes Craven’s voodoo-doomed descent into near-death delirium. Zombies are real, the dead still feel, and we're traveling to Haiti at the height of the regime-ending anti-Duvalier protests to meet the soul-snatching bokor Captain Peytraud in THE SERPENT AND THE RAINBOW.

People in this episode

Hosts: Zach Wincik, Danny Salemme, Casey Brewer

Topics covered

• voodoo
• horror film
• Wes Craven
• zombies
• Haiti
• political protests

Keywords

• Wes Craven
• voodoo
• zombies
• Haiti
• horror
• anti-Duvalier
• Captain Peytraud

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: THE SERPENT AND THE RAINBOW

Places: Haiti

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