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Lair of the White Worm (1988): Fangs, Bagpipes & Pure Ken Russell Insanity

Lair of the White Worm (1988): Fangs, Bagpipes & Pure Ken Russell Insanity27 sept19 min

Giant snake gods. Four-inch fangs. Psychedelic religious hallucinations. A strategically deployed mongoose. Hugh Grant with a six-foot sword. And Peter Capaldi somehow producing both bagpipes AND a grenade when the situation demands it. Welcome to Ken Russell’s Lair of the White Worm a movie that starts weird and just keeps going. This week on SlashBack Cinema, Ryan and Shanny descend into one of the strangest corners of 1980s British horror. We talk folk horror, questionable vampire ru...