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Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: LION'S GATE ENTERTAINMENT
EAN: 0012236125600
Format: Anamorphic, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Lions Gate
Manufacturer: Lions Gate
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Lions Gate
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 19, 2003
Running Time: 93 minutes
Sales Rank: 18708
Studio: Lions Gate
Theatrical Release Date: October 21, 1988
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Product Description:
Hugh Grant Amanda Donohoe and Catherine Oxenberg star in this mix of heart-stopping horror and campy humor. James D'Ampton (Grant) returns to his country castle in England. Legend has it that James' distant ancestor once slayed the local dragon-a monstrous white worm with a fondness for the sweet flesh of virgins. The young Lord dismisses the legend as folklore until archaeology student Angus Flint unearths a massive reptilian skull and the ancient worship site of a pagan snake god on James' property. When James' virtuous girlfriend Eve (Oxenburg) suddenly disappears he and Angus set out to investigate the foreboding cavern said to be the worm's lair where a centuries-old mystery begins to uncoil. Features: WIdeScreen version 2.0 Dolby Stereo Surround Scene AccessInteractive MenusSystem Requirements:Run Time: 93 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: HORROR Rating: R UPC: 012236125600 Manufacturer No: 12560
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Wittily updated from one of Dracula author Bram Stoker's lesser-known horror novels, The Lair of the White Worm is a camp classic that only Ken Russell could have delivered. It's got all the perversity one expects from the bombastic director of Tommy and Altered States: sensible plotting, intelligent dialogue laced with double entendre, graphic imagery with Boschian intensity, and a mischievous disregard for good taste and decorum. In other words, it's heretically hilarious, especially when skeptical Lord D'Ampton (fresh-faced Hugh Grant, in one of his earliest films) begins to suspect that seductive neighbor Sylvia (Amanda Donohoe, game for anything) is connected to the local legend of a monstrous serpent that feeds on sacrificial virgins. Evidence mounts with the help of a local archaeologist (Peter Capaldi) and two endangered sisters (Catherine Oxenberg, Sammi Davis), and Russell infuses Stoker's grisly plot with his inimitable brand of blasphemy, including a gouged eyeball, a venom-splattered crucifix, Roman soldiers raping nuns (in a delirious hallucination sequence), and some of the funniest one-liners since Young Frankenstein. Prudes beware; everyone else…enjoy! --Jeff Shannon
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Another Ken Russell great!
You have to know that if you rent or purchase a Ken Russell film do not expect sweet days in the daisy field. Ken's surrealistic style is sexual, humorous, and always in your face. This film is no different. I won't go into the plot, you can read other reviews for yourself. But this take on reptile/vampire seduction is a wonderfully fun ride on the Russell bus. In an age of dull gore, slasher mucus, Ken gives us a sexy, gothic nightmare thats unique, funny, and a treat for the senses. 5 stars again ... Read More
Rating: - What if Monty Python made a vampire movie ?
What if Monty Python made a vampire movie ?
That would make a good tag line to describe this film.
And while our baddie is not a vampire, but rather a
snake goddess, a snake goddess with really big fangs,
you get the idea.
Hugh Grant, early in his career plays a hair-brained
dare-do-all. Catherine Oxenberg is his dumb,
blond bombshell girlfriend (apologies to Ms.
Oxenberg). And some awesome british character
actors fill out ... Read More
Rating:  - Very Weird Story from Ken Russell
Words cannot describe my feelings when I first saw it about ten years ago. I have seen it again and I still don't know how I should write about it, but one thing is clear; the film is never boring. Ken Russell's "The Lair of the White Worm" is certainly "weird" and "campy," but those words are not strong enough to express my impression after watching this film, which is fascinating in more than one way.
The story opens with a curious skull found by archaeologist Angus (Peter Capaldi) in the ... Read More
Rating: - Can we stop for a bite?
Angus Flint (Peter Capaldi), archaeologist is rooting around an old convent when he finds a rather toothy skull of a supposedly unrecorded beastie. He may have uncovered a lot more.
Some times legend is based on more than facts. And what you don't know may bite you.
I have to admit I did not read the book. I have seen other Ken Russell movies; but I do not recognize his style. However wyrmen works as well if not better than bats in that part of the world. This movie has everything ... Read More
Rating: - Ken Russell satisfies a taste for the bizarre...
Leave it to director Ken Russell to find an obscure Bram Stoker novel and take its most exploitive elements and turn it into a bloodfest of snakes, vampires, virgin sacrifices, phallic symbols, Christian symbolism and more. He throws in some comic book slashings along with some sly humor to create a tacky Gothic horror called THE LAIR OF THE WHITE WORM. It kept me awake until the last shot where the dimwit hero HUGH GRANT is about to find out he's made another mistake before the screen fades to black. ("How ... Read More
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