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Post by Deleted on Mar 27, 2017 20:56:37 GMT
Well, THAT was a fun bit of crazy from ever reliable Ken Russell. Outlandish combo of serious drama and campy horror. Amanda Donohoe is a standout as the sexy villainess.
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Post by telegonus on Mar 28, 2017 8:31:15 GMT
Great fun, and it holds up to repeat viewings, may be Ken Russell's best Eighties picture, and that was a good decade for him. Wonderful, cast,--they really got into it--and I love the music. Lair Of The White Worm may be the most fun horror movie since the heyday of James Whale.  |
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Post by koskiewicz on Mar 28, 2017 16:13:55 GMT
...fun times...I own a copy on VHS tape...
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Post by profondorosso on Mar 28, 2017 20:15:35 GMT
It had its moments, but IMO it was too weird. It was my first (and so far the only) Ken Russell's movie, so I didn't know what to expect. And I'm not sure if I'm going to like the rest of his films.  But I have to admit that young Hugh Grant was hot.  |
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Post by lostinlimbo on Mar 29, 2017 11:16:45 GMT
Ken Russell really does bring out the unexpected. And Lair is no different. Really enjoyed its excessiveness.
Gotta love this quote about his film; "How on earth can you take seriously the vision of Catherine Oxenberg, dressed in Marks & Spencer's underwear, being sacrificed to a fake, phallic worm two hundred feet long?" - Ken Russell.
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Post by lakelander on Mar 29, 2017 22:59:05 GMT
Seemed to be almost a stylistic homage to 1960s Hammer films, meaning the non-Frankenstein/Dracula ones like The Reptile, The Gorgon, Plague of the Zombies, etc.
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Post by telegonus on Mar 30, 2017 7:26:40 GMT
Seemed to be almost a stylistic homage to 1960s Hammer films, meaning the non-Frankenstein/Dracula ones like The Reptile, The Gorgon, Plague of the Zombies, etc. Good call, and you're probably right. The Hammer pictures tended to be conservative, staid even when they featured gore, while Russell's films tended to go every which way. |
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Post by maxwellperfect on Apr 5, 2017 16:38:35 GMT
I recall watching that years ago. Pretty fun.
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