YMMV / The Lair of the White Worm

• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: Considering this is a Ken Russell movie, we have inexplicable hallucinations filled with sacrilegious imagery.
• Complete Monster: The vampiric, serpentine Lady Sylvia Marsh poses as an erudite Woman Of Wealth And Taste to lure in victims. A servant of the snake god Dionin, Sylvia was incensed when Christianity came to Britain, spurring on the slaughter of holy men and women with nuns raped and impaled in massive numbers. In the present, Sylvia spreads her venom to create more snakelike monsters, murdering those she deems useless, and plots to sacrifice a woman in her annual ceremony for Dionin, the sacrifice achieved via being violated by Sylvia with a sharp object.
• Narm Charm: It's hard not to like this movie when we have Hugh Grant chopping an old lady in half with a sword.
• Retroactive Recognition: Peter Capaldi is very young here. This is also among Hugh Grant's first non-television efforts.

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