'The Lair of The White Worm' (1988) – Ken Russell.

Dashing young heir Lord D'Ampton (Hugh Grant) hosts a boisterous bash celebrating the historical heroism of a valiant ancestor, who did so courageously slay the monstrous D'Ampton worm. Not long thereafter, slitherously sinister shocks abound in the sprawling vicinity of picturesque D'Ampton Castle! Once visiting archaeologist, Angus (Peter Capaldi) excitedly unearths the weirdly out-sized skull of some elephantine serpent, the lurid legend of the demoniacal, virgin-craving D'Ampton worm becomes disturbingly real! Playful director, Ken Russell's terrifically toothsome, endearingly eccentric folk horror oddity remains an antidote to the recycled banalities of contemporary horror.

Off-the-scale sinister, 'Lair of the White Worm' is a venomously wicked B-Movie mélange of phantasmagorical, flank-biting fright. Russell's camp, surrealistic, bitingly sardonic 80s shocker is served up with a generous measure of warped wit! The sensuous, snake-worshipping siren, Lady Sylvia Marsh (Amanda Donohoe) distractingly bares more than her fearsome fangs as she sinuously slaughters her shock-stupified prey! Ken Russell's skin-shreddingly slinky Pagan shocker is one of the kookier, though not entirely successful, examples of the Enfant terrible's outlandish cinematic art! Amanda Donohoe's charmingly poisonous, evilly exotic, Lady Sylvia Marsh remains one of the most magnificently menacing, cruelly cold-blooded, sublimely sexy screen monsters of all time!