Ken likes to fill his films with characters that have a sexual orientation besides heterosexual. His Lair of the White Worm is no different. What is different about his Lair of the White Worm is how murky some of the characters' sexual orientations are, and it does not clarify matters, when being bitten by the White Worm apparently changes a character's sexual orientation.

Murky (unclear)
Angus
James
Mrs. Trent

Known (clear)
Except for Sylvia, who is apparently bisexual, all of these should be considered to be heterosexual.
Sylvia
Peters
Mr. Trent
Mary
Kevin

Unknown
Though, it is possible that Eve is an asexual.
Gladwell
Eve
Erny

-Finis-

After watching the film, I agree with Iain's criticism that Martinu's compositions are not justly used, and that any bit of stock music could have blended with the imagery just as well.  Which of course is crazy considering Ken's usual brilliance of combining image with music.  I guess even the best can have an off day.  Still I found the visuals quite compelling and at the end I was moved by the story.  Definitely worth seeing.

There are seven sets of plays:

• Pinter 1: Pinter: Press Conference/ Precisely/ The New World Order/ Mountain Language/ American Football/ The Pres and an Officer/ Death/ One For the Road Ashes to Ashes (Anthony Sher)
• Pinter 2: The Lover/ The Collection (David Suchet)
• Pinter 3: Landscape/ Apart From That/ Girls/ That's All/ God's District/ That's Your Trouble/ Special Offer/ Trouble in the Works/ Night/ A Kind of Alaska / Monologue
• Pinter 4 Moonlight / Night School & other sketches
• Pinter 5  The Room/ Victoria Station/ Family Voices
• Pinter 6 Party Time/ Celebration
• Pinter 7 A Slight Ache / The Dumb Waiter

Le Repaire du Ver Blanc
(the minutes are off, but this reply will take from the last reply to the end of the film.)

Sylvia (Amanda Donohoe)
1. Hairy underarms are apparently more popular in the U. K., then they are here in the U.S.

2. She's dead. She's alive. She's dead. She's alive. She's dead. She's alive.
She's dead. She fell to her death. She's alive. She was swallowed by the white worm.
She's dead. She was swallowed by the white worm. She's alive. It was killed by a hand grenade.
She's dead. She was killed by a hand grenade. She's alive. Being swallowed by the white worm protected her from the hand grenade.
If she stopped the loss of blood from her severed hand, then it is possible that she is still alive.

Kevin (Chris Pitt)
1. He's not only merely dead, he's really most sincerely dead. But, as it appears that it takes almost year for the white worm to digest what it swallows, and since he was swallowed much less than an year ago, it is possible that there is enough of him remaining in the white worm--undigested--that his body can be identified as a victim of Sylvia and the white worm.

James (Hugh Grant)
1. I have actually thought the scene with him on the plane, watching the two stewardesses wrestle, while holding a pen in his lap, is actually restrained. If it was less restrained, the scene would have the pen spouting ink.

2. While this may not be that common, this is not the 1st time I have seen this in an English work of fiction. When a gay man in England, wants to see whether another man is interested, he'll brush his hand across the other man's knee. And then the other man will respond in a way to show that he is interested or not interested. Thus, when both he and Angus are in the car, and he brushes his hand across Angus' knee, is James showing an interest in Angus? Has he always been interested in Angus, or is his interest a recent thing? Or, is his brushing his hand across Angus' knee, not deliberate, but accidental?

3. He smokes at the end of the film. I think this is the 1st time that we see him smoke. Actually, I think this is the 1st time we see anybody in the film smoke.

Next time: Eve, Angus, and miscellaneous.

A while since I saw this.  Not Ken's best effort, I can't remember much of the film, but it will be worth watching again.