This Day in Halloween: Wes Craven’s voodoo parable "The Serpent and the Rainbow" opens across the U.S. in 1988. / Illustration by Brandon Chi
The Serpent and the Rainbow opens across the U.S. in 1988. Wes Craven’s voodoo parable based on ethnobiologist Wade Davis’s non-fiction book, stars Bill Pullman and is a moderate critical and box office success.