This movie was also inspired by real people such as François Duvalier and his dictatorship that continued till 1971 maybe also thanks to certain games of psychological terror to which the population of Haiti is easily subject (even though superstition is a phenomenon still pretty widespread everywhere nowadays). Anyway, Wes Craven is a brilliant horror director when he applies himself, but mainly, when he has a good story at hand. The creator of Freddy Krueger, of ‘Scream’ (but unfortunately also of the unlucky and ineffective 'Shocker’, that was born with a good premise, but deteriorated nearly unwittingly in a horror-comedy) – when he feels like it, as we said – keeps the audience tied to the screen and without any doubt this is such a case. The succession of scenes, in a growing drive of anguish and fear (to which only an insensitive person or a psychopath can be immune – or both in one person!) brings, in my opinion, this movie to the apex of its genre, making of it the best horror movie ever (if the aim of this genre were only to frighten). The hallucinatory nightmares are very well devised, a mental Alcatraz: very easy to enter it, very difficult to get out…the key scenes will stay in our memory!!!