The House on Straw Hill (1976, James Kenelm Clarke)

Can't say there's anything real remarkable about "The House on Straw Hill" (aka. "Trauma" / "Exposé"), other than it's moderate 'claim to fame' as being the one of the only British films on the 'Video Nasties' list. Like most films on the list, I don't really see what all the fuss is about, as it isn't all that shocking or 'nasty'.

Udo Kier plays a pretentious writer on a strict deadline who hires on a typist to assist him in completing his latest erotic novel. There's some past turmoil that occasionally surfaces through bloody hallucinations of slit wrists and a dead man, which isn't too hard to figure out before the 'big reveal' during the end...

Not a terrible 'exploitation-thriller' flick, just nothing all that great, overall. Like I said, the outcome is very predictable so there wasn't much to keep me all that interested aside from a little bit of 'light' lesbian action thrown in, mostly around the tail end. That and only about two unexceptional death scenes (the tit-slashing was decent) - just not enough of the 'good stuff', if ya ask me. Again, not a BAD film for what it's worth, just a little lacking in all departments. One of the 'tamer' of the notorious 'nasties'.