{"id":54,"date":"2014-06-17T12:15:04","date_gmt":"2014-06-17T12:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/?p=54"},"modified":"2026-01-29T16:42:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T21:42:19","slug":"review-the-lair-of-the-white-worm-1988","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/?p=54","title":{"rendered":"The Lair of the White Worm-1988"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Lair of the White Worm-1988<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Director Ken Russell<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Starring Amanda Donohoe, Hugh Grant<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Scott&#8217;s Review #15<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/60029656.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1099\" src=\"http:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/60029656-210x300.jpg\" alt=\"60029656\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/60029656-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/60029656.jpg 284w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Reviewed June 17, 2014<\/p>\n<p><strong>Grade: C+<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Lair of the White Worm (1988) is a very strange film.<\/p>\n<p>Set in Scotland, it tells the tale of a giant snake skeleton found in the ground that leads to a series of strange events.<\/p>\n<p>A wealthy Lady, brilliantly played by Amanda Donohue, begins a sinister plot to sacrifice the townspeople.<\/p>\n<p>The film is campy and way over the top, though Donohue is delicious and seems to have fun with the role of a slithering, sexy, bisexual creature.<\/p>\n<p>The gloomy ambiance is fantastic, mixed in with many psychedelic sequences that entertain.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a somewhat fun, late-night B-movie, to be sure, but the plot did not seem to make much sense to me, especially in the final act.<\/p>\n<p>Lair of the White Worm (1988) is a trippy experience to say the very least. I may need to see it again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lair of the White Worm-1988 Director Ken Russell Starring Amanda Donohoe, Hugh Grant Scott&#8217;s Review #15 Reviewed June 17, 2014 Grade: C+ The Lair of the White Worm (1988) is a very strange film. Set in Scotland, it tells the tale of a giant snake skeleton found in the ground that leads to a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/?p=54\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Lair of the White Worm-1988<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,1614,9138,49,6494,13,235,246,1542,842],"tags":[71,1615,9141,252,6496,248,236,247,1547,844],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1988-films","category-amanda-donohoe","category-christopher-gable","category-comedies","category-gina-mckee","category-horror-films","category-campy-horror","category-horror-comedies","category-hugh-grant","category-ken-russell","tag-1988-movie-reviews","tag-amanda-donohoe","tag-christopher-gable","tag-comedies","tag-gina-mckee","tag-horror-films","tag-campy-horror","tag-horror-comedies","tag-hugh-grant","tag-ken-russell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19342,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions\/19342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}