Exposé (film)
4.2 /10 1 Votes
14% Rotten Tomatoes Initial DVD release May 17, 2006 (France) Screenplay James Kenelm Clarke Writer James Kenelm Clarke Language English | 5.3/10 IMDb 5.7/10 Letterboxd Genre Thriller Music director Steve Gray Duration Country United Kingdom | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Release date March 1976 (UK) Initial release March 1976 (United Kingdom) Cast Linda Hayden (Linda), (Suzanne), (Paul Martin), (Big Youth), Brian Smedley-Aston (Simon Hindstatt) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Exposé (also known as House on Straw Hill) is a 1976 video nasty starring Udo Kier, Linda Hayden and 1970s sex symbol Fiona Richmond. For its original 1976 theatrical release it received heavy cuts due to graphic scenes of sex and violence, and both the 1997 UK video and current DVD re-release contain around 50 seconds of cuts.
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Expose 1976 trailer
Plot
Paul Martin (Kier) is a paranoid novelist who rents out a secluded cottage in the British countryside in order to complete his new book, a pretentious sex romp. He has split with his girlfriend Suzanne (Richmond) and is having problems writing his book. To do the typing for him, he employs a secretary, Linda Hindstatt (Hayden), whom he meets at the railway station. A couple of youths at the railway station intimidate Linda, prompting Paul to give them a battering. Afterwards, Linda takes a walk in a field where she is raped by the youths. As a result, she shoots them both dead. Meanwhile, Paul keeps having nightmares and all his advances on Linda are rejected. He gets Suzanne to come back and she begins having sex with Linda. Paul then crashes into a river, while Suzanne is murdered in the shower and everything erupts into a pandemonium of violence.
Cast
Production
The house being used for the film was, at the time, being rented by the director, James Kenelm Clarke. The house is situated on Spring Elms Lane, Little Baddow and is a private residence. The rape scene and the final scene were filmed in the wheatfield adjoining the back garden. Other locations used around Little Baddow were Mowden Hall Lane and its junction with North Hill, the bridge on Church Road as it crosses the River Chelmer, and the ford in Hurrells Lane. The station scene's were filmed at Hatfied Peverel Railway Station
Edits
Remake
The film was re-made in 2010 as Stalker (aka Exposé), directed by Martin Kemp, starring Anna Brecon as writer Paula Martin and Jane March as Linda, and with original star Linda Hayden as "Mrs Brown".
