An insane surgeon's obsession with an actress leads him to replace her wounded pianist husband's hands with the hands of a knife murderer--hands which still have the urge to throw knives.
1950-luku. Wisconsinilaisen kylän asukkaat pitävät Ed Geiniä omituisena, mutta harmittomana maanviljelijänä. Eikä Ed itsekään elätellyt suuria toiveita kuuluisuudesta. Mutta hän kirjoitti nimensä historian lehdille verisin kirjaimin... Ankaran äidin kasvattama poika kasvaa Herran pelossa ja nuhteessa, kunnes joku muuttuu. Alkaa raakojen veritekekojen sarja, joka hätkähdyttää kokonaista kansakuntaa.
In Paris, in the beginning of the Twentieth Century, Cesar Charron owns a theater at the Rue Morgue where he performs the play "Murders in the Rue Morgue" with his wife Madeleine Charron, who has dreadful nightmares. When there are several murders by acid of people connected to Cesar, the prime suspect of Inspector Vidocq would be Cesar's former partner Rene Marot. But Marot murdered Madeleine's mother many years ago and committed suicide immediately after.
The stern matriarch of a family that lives in a creepy mansion finds that a killer is hiding in the house, searching for a $500,000 fortune rumored to be hidden there and chopping off the heads of anyone who gets in the way.
College student Sonja summons the demonic sorcerer Var after viewing a 500-year-old film containing his spirit.
Welcome to the temple of fear and eroticism, as a monstrous madman slowly mutilates poor young girls! See the sensual act of voodoo performed on an innocent bar patron! View the lustful bite of a vampire!
A man does not know what fear is. His good friend dares him to spend one night in a scary place. A house of wax will get the job done.
A professor lecturing his class tells the strange story of a doctor's dead wife who sends her spirit to haunt and torment him and wreck his second marriage.