House on Straw Hill Movie Review
A writer (Udo Kier) suffering from writer's block hires a secretary (Linda Hayden) to help him with his next book. What the writer doesn't know is the secretary has a secret and is there to do more than help with his writing. This movie of many names is from 1976 England, and my goodness, is it ever dull. The lead character, Paul, is as boring and unlikable as any lead you will ever find in a movie, and another actor's voice is dubbed in for Kier's. Hayden is more interesting, particularly when she brings out the dark side of her character. After a lot of patience, and false visions of things happening (it's actually all in Paul's paranoid mind), we finally arrive at secretary Linda doing a bit of killing after being raped by some backwards locals.
This may or may not be happening...you may or may not care
This is one of those movies where the strategy seemed to be "throw in some nudity to keep the viewer watching", as there is plenty of Hayden and another woman, Suzanne (Fiona Richmond), walking around without clothing. The little twist at the end is kind of interesting and brings the movie up a bit, though the ending is...actually, let's talk about that ending. I watched this movie on Frightpix. Just as Linda is attacking Paul with the knife, the movie stopped and I found myself back on the Roku home page. Curious, I went back to Frightpix and to the movie, and the same thing happened again. Thinking the third time is a charm, I tried once more, but Frightpix refused to show the rest of the movie, so off to YouTube I went. I was able to find the ending, and the five minutes or so left off Frightpix were atrocious--honestly, the random part where the movie stops playing in Frightpix would have been a better ending! No matter what title this one goes by, House on Straw Hill is fairly tame, both as a horror and sexploitation film.
On A Scale Of One To Ten: 4
House on Straw Hill Movie Trailer
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