It's Tonight! RAINCOASTER'S KLASSY MANOR MOVIE NIGHT PRESENTS: "The Lair Of The White Worm!" Tonight at 9PM EST!

Tonight's the night! Our esteemed cinephile Raincoaster is your hostess-with-the-mostest for the Klassy Manor Movie Night's presentation of "The Lair Of The White Worm," from Ken Russell, the legendary director who spent the 1960s and 70s treating the word "subtlety" like a personal insult.

Depending on who you asked, his work was either a divine revelation or a fast track to excommunication. This was the era of "Women in Love," featuring the most famous nude wrestling match in history, "The Devils," a film so controversial it’s still being "found" in pieces, and "Tommy," the rock opera that proved Tina Turner and baked beans are a psychedelic match made in heaven.

In later years, some critics claimed Russell had finally fallen off the deep end, yet others realized he was just doing backflips in the deep end. The 1980s saw him on a glorious, unhinged roll with "Altered States," a sci-fi trip where William Hurt turns into a ape-man by way of a sensory deprivation tank, "Crimes of Passion," in which Kathleen Turner was a fashion designer by day and a hooker by night, with a performance by Anthony Perkins that makes his turn in "Psycho" look benign (no, really), and "Salome’s Last Dance," a lush, campy reimagining of Oscar Wilde in a velvet-lined room.

And then, just when you thought he couldn't possibly get any weirder, Russell looked at a Bram Stoker novel and thought, "This needs more snake-people and Hugh Grant in a kilt." Enter "The Lair of the White Worm." It’s a deliriously bawdy slice of folk horror that features a pre-fame Peter Capaldi playing the bagpipes to charm a giant prehistoric serpent and the unmissable, hissing, erotic spectacle of Amanda Donohoe: 

The movie starts at 9pm EST. 

It autoplays below, so pause it and roll it back to the start. Once Raincoaster enters the comments at 9pm, just wait for her "go" to start. 

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Are you ready? Popcorn popped? Libations at your side? Lights dimmed? If there's anything else you need to do, do it now. Raincoaster will make her grand entrance shortly.