Also released as
- The House on Straw Hill
- Trauma
- House on Straw Hill
- La casa de la colina de paja
- La casa sulla collina di paglia
- La Casa Sobre la Colina de Paja
- ブラッドヘル
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Exposé
Exposé is a 1976 British psychological horror film directed by James Kenelm Clarke. It is one of the 72 films on the Director of Public Prosecutions' video nasties list, and it was successfully prosecuted for obscenity.
The only British film on the DPP list. A novelist, a typist and Fiona Richmond in a farmhouse.
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The only British production on the DPP list, which was awkward for a campaign built around foreign filth arriving on British shelves.
A novelist rents a remote farmhouse to write his second book and hires a typist. Both of them are lying about who they are.
James Kenelm Clarke made it fast and cheap with Udo Kier, dubbed, as the writer, and Fiona Richmond, then a well-known glamour figure, as a neighbour. Linda Hayden is the one giving an actual performance and the film belongs to her.
It is a nasty little chamber piece with a real structure underneath, and it is better than its reputation, which was formed entirely by the listing.
Successfully prosecuted. Released on UK video with 51 seconds cut in 1997; Severin's uncut 2013 disc carries the title House on Straw Hill.
Banned, seized, prosecuted
DPP 72 · successfully prosecuted
The only British production on the DPP list, which made it awkward for a campaign framed around foreign filth arriving on British shelves.
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Checked 9 Aug 2026
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