Check Out this Lair of the White Worm Exclusive Blu-ray Clip!

An exclusive look at the special features from Vestron’s Lair of the White Worm Blu-ray

Ken Russell — God rest him — was one of cinema history’’s great eccentrics. And though his controversial 1971 cinematic freak-out The Devils still stands as one of the most important meditations on sin, lust and corruption, and though Russell’’s pop culture pay-dirt hit with his hyper-kinetic 1975 adaptation of The Who’’s rock opera Tommy, I think my single favorite Ken Russell joint is his 93-minute stretch of coiled, semi-offensive, quintessentially Russell immersion into funny, free-form perversion; the dirty-minded, blackly comic romp that is 1988’s The Lair of the White Worm.

Loosely based on the considerably less-saucy short story by mad Irishman (and of course, Dracula mastermind) Bram Stoker, The Lair of the White Worm was part of a package deal of movies the wacky filmmaker produced and directed for the fledgling theatrical wing of Vestron Pictures, a lower budget but high-concept multi-genre freak-out that defied easy classification. The movie tells the tail-eating tale of orphaned sisters Mary (the delightful Sammi Davis) and Eve (Catherine Oxenberg), two lasses who while away their days happily running their parent’s’ quaint country guesthouse and fritter away their nights flirting with bratty local Lord James Dampton (a charming, early turn by future megastar Hugh Grant) and visiting Scottish archaeologist Angus Flint (Dr. Who‘s Peter Capaldi). When hapless, kilt-clad Indiana Jones clone Flint unearths an unclassifiable, monstrous reptile skull in a buried pagan convent near the girl’s property, a midnight visit is paid by their mysterious, reclusive and undeniably gorgeous neighbor Lady Sylvia Marsh (Amanda Donohoe). Seems the slinky Marsh is not only an ultra rich, man hungry mama but a deadly, venom spitting, snake worshiping vampire hellcat too. She’’s a high priestess of the cult of Dionin, a giant flesh-eating serpent whose legions have plagued the village since Christ was a carpenter. Much madness ensues…

Fans have been clamoring for a proper release of this kooky masterpiece for decades and now, via Lionsgate’s revived Vestron Collectors Series line, the movie is now on Blu-ray… as of TODAY! Rejoice!

You can buy Lair of the White Worm now on Amazon here.

To celebrate, Lionsgate/Vestron have sneaked us a cool clip from the special feature “Worm Food: The Effects of Lair of the White Worm”.

Check it out!