Straw Dogs

IMDb link: 0067800
IMDb rating: 7.4 (68,202 votes)
Genres: Thriller, Crime, Drama
Director: Dustin Hoffman, Sam Peckinpah
Cast: Susan George, Peter Vaughan, T.P. McKenna and others

Release date: 22 Dec 1971
Release year: 1971
Runtime: 113 minutes
Country: United Kingdom
Keywords: rape, rape and revenge, home invasion, sexual assault, rape turns to consensual sex, american abroad, sexual violence, gang rape, exhibitionism, trauma

Plot:

Upon moving to Britain to get away from American violence, astrophysicist David Sumner and his wife Amy are bullied and taken advantage of by the locals hired to do construction. When David finally takes a stand it escalates quickly into a bloody battle as the locals assault his house.

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