Hugh Grant, Catherine Oxenberg, Peter Capaldi, Amanda Donohoe, and Ken Russell starred in the 1988 supernatural horror comedy film The Lair of the White Worm. It centers on the people living in and around a rural English estate who are haunted by an old priestess after an archaeologist finds the skull of a snake that she worships. It is loosely based on the 1911 Bram Stoker book of the same name.
The film was a co-production between the United States and the United Kingdom. Russell was approached by Vestron Pictures, a U.S. film studio that had distributed his earlier picture, Gothic (1986). An admirer of Stoker, Russell combined aspects of the English folktale of the Lambton Worm with a loose adaptation of the screenplay from the original novel. In the spring of 1988, Shepperton Studios and Wetton, Staffordshire, England hosted filming.
Date of Release for The Lair of the White Worm on Blu-Ray
Lionsgate has finally produced a Blu-ray SteelBook edition of Ken Russell’s classic supernatural horror comedy The Lair of the White Worm, which has been in theaters for over three decades. Commencing on May 14, the 1988 film directed by Hugh Grant will be commercially available on Blu-ray at Walmart for the suggested retail price of $23.99. The exclusive artwork for this SteelBook edition was created by Vance Kelly.
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The special features included in its Blu-ray release are as follows:
- Audio Commentaries; Director Ken Russell and Lisi Russell engage in an audio commentary segment alongside film historian Matthew Melia.
- Featurette: “Worm Food: The Effects of The Lair of the White Worm”
- Interviews: “Cutting for Ken” and “Mary, Mary” feature interviews with editor Peter Davies and actress Sammi Davis, respectively.
- Gallery and Trailers
What’s the Story Behind The Lair of the White Worm?
James D’Ampton makes a return visit to his English rural castle in the movie. According to legend, James’s distant ancestor once slew the local dragon, a hideous white worm that had a taste for the delicious flesh of virgins, according to the summary.
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“The youthful lord writes off the story as folklore, but when archeology student Angus Flint digs around James’s property, he finds an enormous reptile skull and the old temple of a pagan snake god. James and Angus head to the ominous cave thought to be the worm’s lair when James’s good-natured girlfriend Eve Trent vanishes out of the blue. There, a centuries-old mystery starts to unravel.
Russell wrote and directed The Lair of the White Worm, which was based on Bram Stoker’s 1911 novel. Grant played James D’Ampton, while Sammi Davis played Mary Trent, Amanda Donohoe as Lady Sylvia Marsh, Catherine Oxenberg as Eve Trent, and Peter Capaldi as Angus Flint were among the other actors who starred. Even with its dismal box office results and unfavorable reviews, the movie managed to become a cult classic.
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