He also dismissed Richmond as a credible actress, saying "The other girl, Linda Hayden, she was a real actress. Kier revealed his own antipathy for the film in a 2014 interview with Empire, bemoaning the fact that his voice was dubbed and that he was never paid.
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In a documentary on the DVD of The Blood on Satan's Claw Hayden says that this is the only movie she regrets making and was not the film she had made originally. The station scenes were filmed at Hatfield Peverel Railway Station Other locations used around Little Baddow were Mowden Hall Lane and its junction with North Hill, the bridge on Church Road as it crosses the River Chelmer, and the ford in Hurrells Lane. The rape scene and the final scene were filmed in the wheatfield adjoining the back garden. The house is situated on Spring Elms Lane, Little Baddow,Įssex and is a private residence. The house being used for the film was, at the time, being rented by the director, James Kenelm Clarke. Suzanne is murdered in the shower by Linda and everything erupts into a pandemonium of violence.
As Linda and Suzanne have sex, Paul then crashes his car into a river, the brakes having been tampered with (assumed) by Linda. As Paul and Linda work on completing the novel, he asks Suzanne to come back only to have Linda seduce her. Aston returns to the house at night, she is murdered: her throat slashed with a knife. Linda insinuates herself into the household, displacing the housekeeper, Mrs.
Meanwhile, Paul keeps having nightmares and all his advances on Linda are rejected. After settling into the house, Linda takes a walk in a field where she is raped by the men but soon gets revenge when she shoots them both with a shotgun. Paul meets Linda at the railway station, where Linda is intimidated by a couple of youths, prompting Paul to give them a battering.
Paul employs a secretary, Linda Hindstatt (Hayden), to type the manuscript for him. Plagued by recurring paranoid nightmares, he has split with his girlfriend Suzanne (Richmond) and is having problems writing his book. Paul Martin (Kier) is a novelist who rents out a secluded cottage in the British countryside in order to complete his new book, a pretentious sex romp.