Straightheads

Cert 18
1 out of 5 1
Straightheads
Nonsensical... Gillian Anderson and Danny Dyer in Straightheads

Gillian Anderson sharing top billing with Danny Dyer - something must be wrong here. But it's worse than that. This nasty and nonsensical rape-revenge thriller is a feature-length exercise in wrongness, unless you're part of that slim minority who've always wanted to see Anderson urinating or Dyer masturbating.

  1. Straightheads
  2. Production year: 2007
  3. Country: UK
  4. Cert (UK): 18
  5. Runtime: 79 mins
  6. Directors: Dan Reed
  7. Cast: Anthony Calf, Danny Dyer, Gillian Anderson, Ralph Brown
  8. More on this film

The odd couple kick into payback mode after being brutally attacked by yokels on a country lane. It's trying for Peckinpah's Straw Dogs but any credibility that it builds up collapses like a house of cards with the comically sadistic climax, which involves the rectal insertion of a shotgun. Wrong!

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