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The Lair of the White Worm (1988)  link to The Lair of the White Worm on IMDb  

Number: 57

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IMDb Rating:
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5.8/10 (7175 votes)

Country: UK, 93 minutes

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Horror, Comedy

Director(s): Ken Russell

Cast: Amanda Donohoe (as Lady Sylvia Marsh), Hugh Grant (as Lord James D'Ampton), Catherine Oxenberg (as Eve Trent), Peter Capaldi (as Angus Flint), Sammi Davis (as Mary Trent)

Medium: Original DVD,

Storyline: Scottish archaeologist Angus Flint discovers an odd skull amid the ruins of a convent that he is excavating. Shortly thereafter, Lady Sylvia Marsh returns to Temple House, a nearby mansion, far earlier than expected. At a party in the village, Angus meets Lord James D'Ampton, who has just inherited his family's land right next to Temple House. Angus learns of the D'Ampton Worm, a huge dragon-snake that an earlier D'Ampton killed by cutting it in half. (There's a pretty catchy rock-folk song that tells the D'Ampton Worm legend.) As people begin disappearing and acting strangely over the next few days, the skull is stolen from Angus's room, and the watch of a missing person is found in a cavern that was the legendary home of the D'Ampton worm. Angus and James discover that there was an ancient cult that worshiped the worm as a god, and they theorize that the creature somehow survived its destruction, but it was trapped inside the cavern. The remainder of the movie shows Angus, James, ...

Loaned: No

Aspect ratio: 1.85:1