The Lair of the White Worm (1988) on Netflix
Archaeology student Angus Flint unearths a snake's skull while digging at Mercy Farm, the Trent sisters' bed and breakfast in Derbyshire. He links it to the legend of the d'Ampton worm.
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Plot summary
Mary and Eve Trent run Mercy Farm, a bed and breakfast in Derbyshire, where an archaeology student named Angus Flint is excavating an old convent site. The skull he unearths looks like that of a large snake, and he ties it to the area's legend of the d'Ampton worm, the snake-like creature that John d'Ampton, an ancestor of the family, is said to have slain in Stonerigg Cavern. James d'Ampton, the present lord, takes an interest when a pocket watch turns up in that cavern. The watch had belonged to Joe Trent, the sisters' father, who vanished a year before with his wife Dorothy near Temple House, home of Lady Sylvia Marsh.
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- Chris Pittas Kevin
- Lloyd Petersas Jesus Christ
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Lair of the White Worm (1988)
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- Russell said Vestron wanted an American name and suggested Catherine Oxenberg, who had been in Dynasty; she refused to be naked in the final sacrifice sequence and insisted on wearing underwear, which Russell said meant Harrods' silk for someone of royal lineage giving way to Marks and Spencer's cotton on a low budget.
- The film came out of a three-picture deal Russell had with the US distributor Vestron Pictures after the success of his Gothic; Vestron told its executive Dan Ireland that if Russell devised a horror film, it would finance his planned prequel to Women in Love, The Rainbow, on a promised budget of $1 million.
- According to executive producer Ireland, Russell originally wanted to cast Tilda Swinton in the role of Lady Sylvia Marsh, but she turned the role down after reading the script and Amanda Donohoe was cast instead.
- Russell said it was a difficult shoot because special effects take forever to do, so sometimes two crews shot simultaneously on different soundstages: one on the shrine set with Catherine Oxenberg about to be sacrificed to the worm, the other filming a convent of nuns.
