Jeanskynebu the audience applauded

Cathardincu Surprisingly incoherent and boring

Yash Wade Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.

Beulah Bram A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

callanvass I found this on You Tube under the title "House on Straw Hill" This was a really bizarre film. It never truly bored me, but I really failed to grasp what the point of it all was. We get some really weird dream sequences at the start from our main character (Udo Kier) That really don't amount to anything, other than a hint as what might happen later on. It has plenty of sexual scenes with males and females. I will admit seeing Linda Hayden & Fiona Richmond make out with one another in rather explicit fashion was definitely enjoyable to watch, but other than that it wasn't all that great. House on Straw Hill tries to give us a mystery that lasts until the very end of the movie, even though we know something isn't right with Linda Hayden's character, and it's blatantly obvious she is the one causing the all trouble. Udo Kier is properly intense, but he is done in by awful dubbing. His character is not very sympathetic either. He knocks woman around, and flirts with them unabashedly. Linda Hayden is drop dead gorgeous, and I loved her character, but the way her character is actually written is very predictable. Her motives are never fully made clear, despite the ending, and none of it made any sense. It does have some blood here and there, but not much of it; it's mostly just soft-core porn. It really is quite the oddity Final Thoughts: I wouldn't say I disliked it…but I can't say I enjoyed it much either. It's too weird for its own good, and it all felt like a blur to me once it was over. It's getting a blu-ray release, so die hard horror fans may wanna check this puppy out. It's worth a look for curiosity's sake, but nothing more. 5/10

Jonathon Dabell Expose (aka The House on Straw Hill) is extremely graphic. The sex is graphic, with gloating scenes of love making, masturbation and a scene near the end which looks suspiciously like anal sex. The violence is graphic too, with a fair bit of spilled blood and sadistic detail during the running time.Udo Kier gives an OK performance as a novelist who murdered a colleague in order to steal his latest manuscript. He is now working on a new book, with young secretary Linda Hayden to help him, but he can't seem to shrug off uncontrollable hallucinations about the crime he has committed.The director indulges in some flashy film-making techniques, but for all this pomp and circumstance there is no hiding the fact that this is pure exploitation fodder. I believe that this may well be the most heavily censored and graphic British film ever made, so it worth seeing for that dubious distinction (especially if you can track down the uncut 117 minute version.... very rare though). However, it's not really a very good movie and once you've experienced it, it is unlikely that you will want to watch it again. Footnote: If you're a fan of British sex siren Fiona Richmond, you'll be pleased to know that she spends most of this movie stark naked.

Infofreak Your reaction to 'House On Straw Hill' will depend on how big a fan of Udo Kier you are. If like me you think he's one of the coolest actors in the history of cinema you'll find this to be a fascinating piece of 70s exploitation. Udo plays Paul Martin, an arrogant and cold best-selling novelist having trouble completing his latest opus. After several aborted attempts around the globe he ends up in a secluded country house in England. When he hires a new secretary (Linda Hayden) he gets more than he bargained before. She is polymorphously perverse and is harboring a secret. In between dictation sessions Udo gets all hot and bothered with this mysterious newcomer. Meanwhile corpses begin to appear in unexpected places. Who is this woman and what does she want? Watch 'House On Straw Hill' and all will be revealed. A pretty cool movie all round with a strong performance from (an apparently dubbed) Kier, and plenty of nudity to satisfy smut fans.

Shinwa Unimaginative slab of sexploitation horror has nubile (if slightly pudgy here) Linda Hayden as a disturbed woman who comes to work as secretary for pretentious writer Udo Kier. After a slow buildup, peppered with repeated scenes of Hayden masturbating, she gets to work on knocking off the supporting cast. Hayden's charisma goes a long way to making the film watchable, but it's all a very dry exercise, with little effort in either suspense or characterization making the whole thing seem rather pointless, and the final twist revelation making all of the antics that came before somewhat questionable in motivation. In a supporting role, Fiona Richmond occasionally wears clothes.