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 H...

This one is a absolute must! Blood, nudiness, sacrilege, plus the best trick of all, Amanda Donohoe as a fanged, slithery killer. Yes, it's Ken Russell at his russelliest in this 1988 horror delight. As this rave New York Times review describes it:  "The new creature in the neighborhood is Lady Sylvia Marsh, who, as played by Amanda Donohoe, is the very essence of drawing-room naughtiness. That she is also the embodiment of the legendary white worm, or at least some sort of worm-related priestess, is icing on the cake...she may drive a sports car and wear fashionably deadly looking sunglasses, which suggest normalcy of a certain sort, but she also appears in kinky black underwear to polish off a victim..." Oh, and there's also a wonderfully louche Hugh Grant.  In other words, Raincoaster, our klassy Manor movie curator, has picked another delightful winner. So mark your calendar now for this coming Thursday , March 12th, at 9pm EST. See you there! Photo Credits: Ves...