Review of The Lair of the White Worm (1988) by Roger Ebert for Chicago Sun-Times — 21 Oct 1993
It has everything you want: shadows, screams, feverish scientific speculations, guttering candle flames, flowing diaphanous gowns, midnights, dawns and worms. Russell was once, and no doubt will be again, considered an important director.
This is the sort of exercise he could film with one hand tied behind his back, and it looks like that was indeed more or less his approach.
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This review of The Lair of the White Worm (1988) was written by Roger Ebert and published by Chicago Sun-Times on 21 Oct 1993.
The Lair of the White Worm has generally received mixed reviews.
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