'The Lair of the White Worm,' director Ken Russell's 1988 bizarre horror comedy, returns to the high-definition format now entombed in metal.
Amanda Donohoe as Lady Sylvia Marsh in “The Lair of the White Worm,” now available in a SteelBook Blu-ray edition from Lionsgate Home Entertainment.
Her goal is the sacrifice of humans to bring the slithering deity back to life and she wields an extended and sharp pair of fangs when necessary to kill and control her victims. The visually twisted director presents an abundance of exploitive imagery tied to snakes and worms to reinforce the villain’s intentions, and even a battle between Christianity and paganism plays out.
Mr. Russell speaks nonstop, often acting like an amusing omniscient narrator to the movie. He focuses on the Stoker source material, D’Ampton Worm folklore and the cast, but he doesn’t give much explanation for his more outrageous expressionistic scenes. Moving on to featurettes culled from the 2017 release, the disc delivers a 27-minute look at the truly disturbing practical visual effects as delightfully explained by artisans NeillThey touch on such moments creating the large worm head puppet, impaling a character on his eyeball, moving a foam worm in the awkward crucifixion scene and cutting a body in half.
United Kingdom Latest News, United Kingdom Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
Red, White & Royal Blue is coming red, white & royal back for secondsThe regal romance starring Nicholas Galitzine and Taylor Zakhar Perez is getting a sequel from Prime Video
Read more »
White teacher sues California union after allegedly blocking him from leadership for being WhiteA White teacher in the Elk Grove School District is suing his local union after it barred him from running for a position limited to people of color, according to the lawsuit.
Read more »
Hitler’s Wolf’s Lair secret stuns archaeologists, 5 limbless skeletons foundAmateur archaeologists' find of five skeletons, including two children, in a Nazi-built building in Poland raises several questions.
Read more »
Skeletons missing hands and feet found in Hitler's Wolf's LairFive human skeletons - all missing their hands and feet - have been discovered at Nazi leader Adolf Hitler’s eastern front military headquarters in present-day Poland, buried inside the villa of Luftwaffe commander Hermann Goering.
Read more »
Human remains found at Hitler's Wolf Lair, too decayed to determine cause of deathThe bunker was Hitler’s chief headquarters from 1941-44.
Read more »
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., independent presidential candidate, says he has a dead worm in his brainRobert F. Kennedy Jr. was packing for a hospital stay to have brain surgery for a tumor when doctors from another hospital said the dark spots in his brain scans may be caused by something else -- a worm.
Read more »