Ken Russell

A sensory deprivation tank and shamanic drugs combine to take a psychology professor (William Hurt) to some unexpected states of consciousness in this mind-bending drama by Ken Russell (Tommy, The Lair of the White Worm).

In a remote corner of England's Peak District, a mysterious skull is unearthed. But even weirder is that Lady Sylvia steals the skull for use in worshiping – very erotically – her pagan god, The White Worm, who hungers for the taste of virginal flesh.

From the pen of master spy novelist John le Carre. An expatriate British publisher (Sean Connery) unexpectedly finds himself working for British intelligence and sucked into the deadly world of espionage.