The Serpent and the Rainbow

For Wes Craven this is probably his most real world horror and it is deeply disturbing.

This unnervingly tense supernatural/political horror is such a drug-induced nightmare and definitely not your typical zombie film. The film examines the mysteries of life and death in a really compelling way with the Haitian backdrop that adds a creepy layer of authenticity. The horror in this film comes from the hallucinations and nightmares and Wes knows how to masterfully work the nightmare world and constantly intertwines it with reality. Like I said earlier, the zombies in this film aren't the flesh-eating type, but people who are tricked into thinking they're dead and the idea of being buried alive to me is so scary. There's this constant feeling of danger throughout that's so genuinely terrifying and the film captures that well. Perhaps, it gets a bit too silly for me near the end but nothing too bad to take away from my overall enjoyment.