Self- Writeousness | When Good Movies Happen to Bad Books: Lair of the White Worm @SelfWriteousness | Uploaded October 2022 | Updated October 2024, 1 minute ago.
So *Lair of the White Worm* is lesser known than *Dracula* for a reason, and it seems to be a gothic horror novel that readers forgot by choice, not chance.
The movie on the other hand...
00:01 This Lair of the White Worm review in a nutshell
00:22 Objective facts about the book
00:54 The movie and the book as (fraternal) Twins
01:00 The virtues of the book
01:27 The book vs. the film
04:35 Time to talk about the racism
05:42 A Yikes-cicle built for 2: Stoker vs. Lovecraft
06:02 How Lair of the White Worm could have been better
06:43 That really interesting McGuffin from the middle of the book
07:39 A big, scary kite
08:06 The most unsettling part of the movie (for me)
The internet tells me Hugh Grant in Lair of the White Worm is an embarrassed High Grant, but I think it's a thing of beauty, as is Young Peter Capaldi in Lair if the White Worm. Also, I didn't know at the time I made this video, but the Lair of the White Worm song - the ballad of banging exposition - is based on a genuine English ballad about a careless noble who threw a tiny worm down a well, then buggers off to war and returns to find ND the worm has grown. It's kinda awesome.
(Also, thank you for bearing with me and any hideous spelling errors you encounter. I lost my proof reader more than a year ago, and since then, I tend to wear my illiteracy on my sleeve)
Thanks for visiting the channel.
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If you would like to be a part of my rehab / monitor my progress on assorted social media platforms, feel free to follow me on Twitter:
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#literature #halloween #horrorstory #bramstoker #halloween
youtu.be/cizfQ3MO8uM
So *Lair of the White Worm* is lesser known than *Dracula* for a reason, and it seems to be a gothic horror novel that readers forgot by choice, not chance.
The movie on the other hand...
00:01 This Lair of the White Worm review in a nutshell
00:22 Objective facts about the book
00:54 The movie and the book as (fraternal) Twins
01:00 The virtues of the book
01:27 The book vs. the film
04:35 Time to talk about the racism
05:42 A Yikes-cicle built for 2: Stoker vs. Lovecraft
06:02 How Lair of the White Worm could have been better
06:43 That really interesting McGuffin from the middle of the book
07:39 A big, scary kite
08:06 The most unsettling part of the movie (for me)
The internet tells me Hugh Grant in Lair of the White Worm is an embarrassed High Grant, but I think it's a thing of beauty, as is Young Peter Capaldi in Lair if the White Worm. Also, I didn't know at the time I made this video, but the Lair of the White Worm song - the ballad of banging exposition - is based on a genuine English ballad about a careless noble who threw a tiny worm down a well, then buggers off to war and returns to find ND the worm has grown. It's kinda awesome.
(Also, thank you for bearing with me and any hideous spelling errors you encounter. I lost my proof reader more than a year ago, and since then, I tend to wear my illiteracy on my sleeve)
Thanks for visiting the channel.
I am something of an antisocial eccentric, but I am actively trying to be more of a blessing than a curse to my fellow writers.
If you would like to be a part of my rehab / monitor my progress on assorted social media platforms, feel free to follow me on Twitter:
@SWriteousness (I think)
or Instagram: instagram.com/selfwriteousness
#literature #halloween #horrorstory #bramstoker #halloween
youtu.be/cizfQ3MO8uM
