The Washington Post, June 15th, 1989
R, 1988, 93 minutes, Vestron Pictures, $89.98. It makes sense that Ken Russell, champion of camp thrash, should make a film out of Bram Stoker's deservedly obscure post-"Dracula" novel. After all, there's an unsettling duality in the Stoker/Russell universe-Christian and pagan, violent and bucolic, earnest and decadent, real and surreal-and so what if Russell's interpretations seem fueled by diabolic steroids. "Lair" revolves around the legend of the D'Ampton Worm that menaced the Scottish countryside 1,600 years before a young archaeologist uncovers an unusually shaped prehistoric skull in th...
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