Straightheads
Straightheads is a 2007 British revenge/thriller film (titled Closure in the US), featuring brutal sexual violence, which follows a couple who seek revenge against a group of men. It was written and directed by Dan Reed, who made his directorial debut, and features Gillian Anderson and Danny Dyer. The film went straight-to-video in the United States on 18 September 2007. Plot. Adam, a 23-year-old self-employed security technician, is hired by a businesswoman, Alice Comfort, to set up a security system in her flat. After finishing the work, Adam falls asleep on her roof -garden. When Alice arrives home and finds him there, she impulsively asks him to accompany her to a housewarming party for her boss. He is unsure, but eventually agrees. On the way home from the party Alice and Adam are caught behind a slow-moving vehicle, which Alice frustratedly overtakes whilst Adam shouts out an obscenity at the driver. Shortly thereafter, Alice is distracted from driving and accidentally hits a stag. She brings the car to a stop, and they drag the stag off the road. While they are moving it, the car that Alice had earlier overtaken pulls up  behind Alice's car. Three men get out, badly beat Adam and then rape Alice. A month passes, during which Adam and Alice physically heal but both remain emotionally wounded. On returning to work, Alice receives notification that, while she was hospitalised following her rape, her father had died. Alice drives out to his country house to put his affairs in order, where she discovers a locked chest that she recognises from her childhood. On the way home she passes by a group of riders on horseback, one of whom she recognises as having raped her. She gets his name  - Heffer - from one of the other riders. Alice then contacts Adam, and he makes his way to her father's house where she tells him that she's found one of the men responsible for attacking them. Alice shows Adam the contents of her father's locked chest: a sniper rifle and silencer that her father apparently smuggled home after being discharged from the army. Alice says that she intends to avenge herself against Heffer. They go to Heffer's home with the intent to kill him. As Alice is preparing to shoot him, a young woman (later identified as  Heffer's daughter, Sophie) comes out of the house, looking for her dog Crisis, who was killed by the duo. Alice and Adam, disturbed by seeing their attacker as a human being, return home. Over the next few days Alice and Adam try to determine if they should follow through with their plan. Adam, who has been impotent since the attack, steadily becomes more aggressive and committed to the idea of murdering Heffer. Alice, however, has grown reluctant to kill Heffer now that she has seen him in a human context; instead, she sends Adam to set up security equipment  in Heffer's house to try to determine the identities and locations of his friends who participated in the gang-rape. Adam succeeds in breaking into Heffer's house and ends up in Sophie's room; initially, he merely attempts to keep her quiet so that he can get out of the house, but he has a sudden fit of rage and begins raping her. In the middle of the attack, she escapes from his grasp.Adam returns home, able to maintain an erection for the first time since the attack. The next day Alice uses a laptop computer that  controls the security cameras and watches Heffer in his house. She realises his intention is to kill himself, and after grabbing the rifle rushes to his house. Alice finds Heffer in his garage, sitting in his running car, attempting to kill himself by carbon monoxide poisoning. Alice gets him out of the car and into fresh air, saving his life. In the midst of a delirium from the carbon monoxide, Heffer—who doesn't recognise Alice—confesses that, a month ago, his friends had intended to rape his daughter, but he convinced them to rape and beat a woman and  her friend in the middle of the road instead. Just then, Alice and Heffer hear Adam calling from outside, and Heffer suddenly turns violent, grabbing her roughly, but Alice hits him and frees herself. Adam then bursts into the house, beats Heffer, duct-tapes him to the kitchen table, and holds him down while Alice sodomises him with the barrel of the rifle that she has fetched from her car; once she is finished, she prepares to kill him, but - now pitying him because of the circumstances surrounding the rape - she decides not to pull the trigger. Adam, infuriated, takes  out a hunting knife and carves out Heffer's eye. Horrified, Alice runs away; driving back to her father's home, Alice spots Sophie hitch-hiking, and invites her into her car. When Sophie realises she isn't being taken home, she asks Alice where they're headed. Alice replies, "Somewhere safe." Back at Heffer's house, Adam taunts Heffer until he hears a car pulling up; as one of the attackers approaches the house, Adam fatally shoots him in the head before pursuing the remaining attacker through the grounds. Adam shoots him in the leg as he flees, causing  him to fall to the ground. Adam then approaches the wounded man and bludgeons him to death with the butt of the rifle. In the final shot of the film, Adam walks away from his final victim and approaches the screen for a close-up shot. He effectively breaks the fourth wall by glancing at the audience - leaving the viewer to reflect on the violent act of revenge Adam has committed. Critical reception. Rotten Tomatoes reported that 40% of 20 listed film critics gave the film a positive review, with an average rating of 4.6 out of 10. Home Media . A Blu-ray version of the film debuted in the UK on 25 January 2010. It contains a feature commentary, deleted scenes, and trailers. The disc is Region B Locked. The film debuted on Blu-ray for the first time in the United States on 4 April 2017 by Mill Creek Entertainment. It is included as part of a 3-pack with "Perfect Stranger" (2007) and "Wind Chill" (2007).