一个年轻的拿破仑军官追踪一个神秘的女人而来到一个年迈男爵的城堡,在那里他发现这个女人是听命于一个老巫婆,其最终目的是迫使男爵自杀……
Roger directed for two days on a set left over from a previous production, and without a proper script. He hired Francis Coppola to write a script and finish the picture. After five weeks of shooting, Roger fired Francis, and hired me to finish the picture. Jack Hill was hired to write a new script with me. A lot of what Francis shot was thrown out, except for the stuff with the witch from WIZARD OF OZ. (Dorothy Newman), and I finished the picture in five days of shooting. All of the interiors are Roger's (with the exception of Francis's witch's lair), and most of the exteriors are mine. To the best of my recollection, and contrary to legend, Jack Nicholson did not direct any of the film.。艾美從又濕又冷的浴缸裡驚醒,發現自己似乎被軟禁在一所廢棄的學校。身邊一片漆黑又恐怖,斑駁的牆壁上有一些詭譎的塗鴉。在她遭軟禁期間,只能與腦中想法相依。身為一名醫生,同時也是妻子和悲傷的母親,始終無法認清兒子因為意外已長眠的事實,並認為兒子也被困在學校裡面。在這充滿敵意、超自然煉獄般的學校,深陷於黑暗與絕望的艾美極力想要找到她的兒子。她不斷打破「學校」的規則,隨著艾美遇到住在「學校」的恐怖邪惡生物,令人畏懼的超自然力量與內心恐懼接踵而至,到底她對抗的是這些恐怖的生物,還是自己的心魔呢?。