House of Whipcord

House of Whipcord is a 1974 horror exploitation film directed by Pete Walker. It was his first collaboration with former Time Out critic and screenwriter David McGillivray, who went on to write a further three films for him. It also marked the horror film debut of distinguished character actress Sheila Keith, who went on to star in four more films for Walker. House of Whipcord opens with the ironic credit This film is dedicated to those who are disturbed by todays lax moral codes and who eagerly await the return of corporal and capital punishment.

While at a party, French model AnneMarie DeVarnet Penny Irving is shocked to see her photographerboyfriend has put on display a recently shot photo where she is seen being arrested by police, for public nudity. Humiliated, AnneMarie dumps her boyfriend and finds comfort in a partygoer named Mark E. Desade Robert Tayman, who offers to take her to his country estate to escape the scandal her exboyfriend has caused her.Unfortunately, AnneMarie discovers that Mark E. Desade whose name shares the same pronunciation as the infamous Marquis de Sade is a procurer for his sadistic exreform school matron mother, Margaret Barbara Markham. Years earlier, Margaret was brought to trial when her corrupt reign over the reform school she worked at, led to a young French girl under her charge to kill herself in truth, Margaret murdered her and made it look like a suicide. Found not guilty but fired from her job, she seduced the High Court Judge who heard her case Patrick Barr. The judge left his wife for Margaret, who bore him a son Mark and who worked with her to turn his mansion home into a secret illegal prison for delinquent women. However, the now retired judge blind and senile, is oblivious to the fact that his wife is now using the prison to torture and ultimately execute women, upon them gaining three demerits during their stay. ........

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