Ebert, Review of The Serpent and the Rainbow, rogerebert.com, 1988

Roger Ebert's contemporary review of the film's 1988 theatrical release. Its strength is that it is a widely read, contemporaneous critical assessment crediting the film with treating Haitian Vodou seriously as a religion and cultural force rather than as the mere gimmick Ebert says most horror movies reduce it to. Its limit is that it is one critic's reception at the time of release, from outside the Vodou community itself and without the benefit of the later documented critique this entry also carries, which questions exactly the seriousness Ebert praised.