Exposé (also known as House on Straw Hill and Trauma) is a 1976 British psychological horror thriller film[1] that was referred to as a video nasty during the 1980s.

[2] It was directed by James Kenelm Clarke, partly financed by Paul Raymond[1] and stars Udo Kier, Linda Hayden and 1970s sex symbol Fiona Richmond.

[3] Paul Martin is a novelist who rents out a secluded cottage in the British countryside to complete his new book, a pretentious sex romp.

Pianist, composer and arranger Steve Gray had already worked with director (and musician) James Clarke, who asked him to score the film.

[5] The film was originally released straight to theaters in March 1976 and it received a heavy amount of cuts due to its graphic violent and sexual content.

The film thus adds up to a reasonably intriguing thriller – with some titillating sexual content – rather than sexploitation with violence, and seems unlikely to find its audience in most soft-core halls.

Its visual qualities may superficially be those of a good commercial, but it remains a promising piece of work, and one hopes that Clarke may be allowed to tackle something mere complex in the future.