The Lair of the White Worm (Russell, 1988): Prince Charles Cinema, 8.45pm
This is part of the Ken Russell season at the Prince Charles and also screens 11th June.
Chicago Reader review:
Producer-writer-director Ken Russell updates the last novel of Dracula‘s Bram Stoker (known as The Garden of Evil
in the U.S.), about the discovery of a somewhat vampiristic ancient
anti-Christian cult built around a giant white worm in rural England.
For once, Russell’s over-the-top conceits are anchored in a fairly
humdrum horror story and allowed to flourish mainly at privileged
moments of hallucinatory delirium; the rest of the time the storytelling
is serviceable if occasionally lumpy. But the mad campy moments—which
chiefly involve snake woman Amanda Donohoe slinking around in various
stages of undress or in dominatrix outfits—are worth waiting for. With
Hugh Grant, Catherine Oxenberg, Peter Capaldi, Sammi Davis, Stratford
Johns, and a great many B-film accessories, including snakes, worms,
dildos, caves, dungeons, and tatty special effects (1988).
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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