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Title: The Lair Of The White Worm
Format: DVD
Condition: New
Number Of Discs: 1
Release Date: 19/08/2003
Genre: Horror
Actors: Sammi Davis, Peter Capaldi, Catherine Oxenberg, Hugh Grant, Amanda Donohoe
Director: Ken Russell
Audio Language: English
Runtime: 1 hour and 33 minutes
Region Code: DVD: 1 (US, Canada...)
Studio: Lionsgate
Subtitle Language: Spanish, English
Certificate: MPAA R
Description: When an archaeologist uncovers a strange skull in foreign land, the residents of a near-by town begin to disappear, leading to further inexplicable occurrences. 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 elseenjoy! --Jeff Shannon

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