{"id":30909,"date":"2020-08-28T10:38:18","date_gmt":"2020-08-28T16:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/?p=30909"},"modified":"2020-08-16T10:39:51","modified_gmt":"2020-08-16T16:39:51","slug":"trauma-1976-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/?p=30909","title":{"rendered":"Trauma (1976)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/5aab6de716948a412123304d10000e15.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"236\" height=\"331\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-30851\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/5aab6de716948a412123304d10000e15.jpg 236w, https:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/5aab6de716948a412123304d10000e15-214x300.jpg 214w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 236px) 100vw, 236px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Intended as a cheap sexploitation\/horror film, made for only \u00a350,000, it&#8217;s interesting to discover what became of Expose &#8211; and consider what it might have been. The plot is good &#8211; better than an average episode of The Avengers, anyway. A writer (Udo Kier) rents a detached farmhouse in Essex and hires a secretary (Linda Hayden) to type his somewhat improbable manuscript.<\/p>\n<p>There are low ceilings, claustrophobic surrounds and a small ensemble of performers including Fiona Richmond, who, as Kier&#8217;s girlfriend, stimulates him so much that during intimacy with her, he feels the need to wear latex gloves. It all augurs well, the soundtrack&#8217;s good too and I was pleased to see a vignette from talented Karl Howman, who I first saw in the exceptional National Youth Theatre production of Zigger Zagger.<\/p>\n<p>The sex isn&#8217;t outrageous by today&#8217;s standards &#8211; though not quite the sort of thing you&#8217;d come across in Last of the Summer Wine. Funnily enough, I first discovered this film due to an innocuous appearance of Linda Hayden in another sitcom, Some Mother&#8217;s Do &#8216;Ave Em.<\/p>\n<p>Her role in this is not dissimilar to that of Susan George in Straw Dogs; on one occasion, as she towers over her drunken employer, lying on the floor staring up at her, panic-stricken, I felt distinctly uneasy. Coming from Stanmore, near to where I grew up, she might at least have considered towering over me, after an evening of inebriation in a pub near the end of the Northern Line. Charlotte Rampling, a fellow actress from the neighbourhood, who appeared in The Night Porter, amongst other things, became a much bigger star. Linda could &#8211; and perhaps should &#8211; have emulated her. She was apparently disappointed Fiona Richmond enjoyed star billing on the posters and that the film was advertised as a skinflick. Fair enough, but perennial masturbation was not depicted so much in mainstream films in those days (these days, it&#8217;s almost compulsory, although most associated with American boys in teenage coming of age movies).<\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intended as a cheap sexploitation\/horror film, made for only \u00a350,000, it&#8217;s interesting to discover what became of Expose &#8211; and consider what it might have been. The plot is good &#8211; better than an average episode of The Avengers, anyway. 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