The Lair of the White Word from 1988. filming of Bram Stoker's
badly written novel. Strange considering Ken found
Stoker's most famous book Dracula to be boring.
The worm is actually a snake, and a snake
woman searches out sacrifices. Her car, moving through
the night with green headlamps looks like a snake
("I change my cars like a snake sheds its
skin"). With her make-up she looks sexy but not
frightening, but it doesn't matter as the film becomes a
horror-comedy.
Hugh Grant is the lord of the manor, who slays
a symbolic snake at a party (in a scene based on Lang's
Siegfried) and later kills the snake woman in the same
way. But the snake woman is only the servant to the god.
Because Oxenberg refused to appear
nude we have the unique sacrificial scene where
the executioner is naked but the victim, tied and
bound and waiting to be sacrificed to a giant
worm, still wears her knickers.
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