Here’s remake #339,430,823 – although I can’t be too outraged at this one because I’ve never even heard the title before. The film in question is HOUSE ON STRAW HILL, a British thriller made in 1976 and starring the always creep-tacular Udo Kier. (It’s also known as EXPOSE, and is banned in the U.K. to this day.) Martin Kemp is behind the remake, which gets rolling later this month. Jane March (from one of the all-time great bad movies, COLOR OF NIGHT and pictured below), Anna Brecon, Jennifer Matter, and Danny Young will star.
The story concerns a best-selling author named Paula Martin who’s suffering writer’s block on her latest book, and goes to an old house in the country to get her creative juices flowing again. Paula requests her agent to send her an assistant, who turns out to be a young woman named Linda. At first the two get along great—but then Linda becomes manipulative, then violent, then homicidal.
Kemp tells Fangoria: “The tone of the new version is very much chilling and sexy, rather than gory and sleazy, but I believe it will still have an impact.”
Any of our fine readers familiar with the original flick?