Plot:
The screen shows lit candles and flowers surrounding a coffin. The narration warns us this movie is scary enough to kill the audience from fright. The coffin
opens. They promise a free burial if you die from fright watching this movie. Good thing they didn’t mention dying of boredom.
Come and knock on our door, there's a place waiting for you...
At a house with a garden and pond, we see the water bubbling as a skull floats to the surface. The “Aww” scary vocal ensues.
A car brings our charming newlyweds to the house. Jenny is happy with the peacocks. The house is empty. Eric was married before and this house belonged to
his first wife. Jenny is carried across the threshold. They embrace as creepy guy watches them.
Eric and Jenny are strolling when she learns about the creepy groundskeeper Mickey.
The right Reverend Snow and his wife pay their respects. We learn that Mickey’s dad worked for Miriam’s father. Mickey and Miriam grew together. Jenny
finally is introduced to Mickey. The Snows, Eric and Jenny head to house while Mickey keeps tending the grounds.
Mickey is talking to a painting.
Eric talks with the Reverend. Jenny is impressionable after her parents died. She saw them drown.
Later, Jenny asks the Reverend how Miriam died. She tripped, smashed her head, and fell in the pond. That is quite an accidental, death, isn’t it? Or was it?
Mickey keeps talking to Miriam. He’s distraught she never returned.
The Snows leave. It is mentioned that Jenny has money. Will she have an accident?
Mickey takes a lily pad from the pond.
Back at the house, honeymoonin’ ensues. Later, Jenny hears a scream. Eric is gone. She searches through the house. It was just the shutters. The painting,
Mickey was talking to earlier, is in the room. Jenny is screaming up a storm when she finds Eric. They find a lily pad. Jenny is distraught, that has to be her natural
emotional state. Eric wants her to shut up. They leave the room. But, we see a skull superimposed over the painting.
Eric tells her she was sick but cured now. He claims Mickey did it; Mickey looks for Miriam every night.
Mickey is at the pond, still talking to Miriam.
The next day, Eric heads to town to get the utilities turned on. Mickey is gardening. Jenny tries talking with him and starts to help him garden. They get flowers
for Miriam’s grave. Mickey talks with her. He mentions he heard Miriam cry at night and then runs off.
Jenny is looking at the painting when the closet in the room opens up. She closes it and walks around the grounds, heads to the pond. That night, she’s all alone
and gets some restless sleep. Her dreams consist of hearing other characters talk about Miriam’s death. That is as subtle of the foreshadowing we get in this movie.
She awakens and walks around the house. Everything is fine. The closet opens again with a skull on the top shelf. Jenny sees several scratches on her hand and
runs back to the bedroom. Mickey is roaming around outside. A tree is scratching against the house.
She hears footsteps and is very disturbed by it. Looking around the house again, she throws the skull out the window. Back in her room a creepy music plays,
something is approaching the front door and knocks on the door. Jenny decides to check it again. No one is there but a skull on the doormat. She is suitably freaked
out by this.
Fear Factor is so disgusting...
She runs into the house chased by the skull. And if you wonder how a skull chases someone, they roll. Jenny passes out.
Somehow, Jenny is in bed when she wakes up. Eric checks on her, consoling her. There is no skull to be found. Eric thinks she’s hysterical, doesn’t believe
her. Jenny wants to go back to New York and her psychiatrist. Eric wants her to stay, thinks Mickey is trying to scare her. Mickey is jealous and blames Eric for
Miriam’s death and for Jenny living here.
Jenny tries explaining what happened to Reverend Snow. He’s skeptical of her story. She had psychological problems.
Eric can’t find Mickey. The Snows are leaving. Eric wants to find Mickey who keeps running from him. Reverend Snow recommends that he take Jenny from
the house. Eric gives some BS story about she has to face her fears, etc…
Eric and Jenny find Mickey and chase him. Eric grabs him, accuses him for scaring his wife. He pushes him down. Jenny doesn’t think Mickey is responsible for
it.
Our great "psychiatrist" Eric thinks Jenny’s problems started when she saw the painting. His plan is to burn it. He has her set the painting on fire. They hear a
scream; he claims it’s the peacocks.
At the pond, the wind is blowing, and the water is bubbling. Eric will take care of the ashes. They find a skull in the ashes. Jenny sees it. Eric claims nothing is
there. Jenny faints. Eric takes the skull and hides it in the pond. Mickey is hiding in the nearby bushes sees everything.
Eric gets Jenny back into the house, when Reverend Snow arrives. He is told that Jenny is hallucinating about skulls. Eric claims he didn’t see a thing. In the
hospital, Jenny attempted suicide. Eric will take her back for her own good.
Jenny is walking with Eric who rushes off for something.
Mickey is hobbling around. Eric checks the pond for the skull, not there. He spots and chases Mickey down in the greenhouse. Wanting the skull, Mickey is
smacked around. Mickey claims Miriam took the skull. Eric storms off. However, Mickey has the skull.
Back at the pond, Eric is getting more desperate to find the skull. Mickey hides the skull in a basket and hobbles away. Eric checks at Miriam’s grave, this guy
has crossed the line into unsanity…
Mickey takes the skull to the Snows. He swears he never tried scaring Jenny. They wonder why Eric would be doing this to her? They head to the house.
Meanwhile, Jenny is looking to say goodbye to Mickey. Eric is hiding and sneaks back into the house. Jenny checks the greenhouse and finds Ghost Woman from
the Painting. Jenny tries her impression of a track star and beats feet. Ghost Woman does the very slow stalker walk.
Eric readies a noose? Jenny runs into the house. Husband hides his handiwork (love the alliteration.) She’s screaming and heads up the stairs. He grabs her and
chokes her until she passes out. A knock is heard on the door. Eric goes to answer it. Seeing a skull in a basket, he backs away. The Ghost Woman is a skeleton in
the dress. He throws something at her knocking the skeleton into a pile of bones.
He runs off into the skull. A lightning storm lights the night sky as he runs from the house. Giant Superimposed Skull appears.
Do you mind if i superimpose myself over your house?
It appears from different directions. Skull is in the car. Eric runs away and hears a scream. The normal sized skull attacks him. If you wonder how a skull can attack
a man, remember how in
Monty Python and the Holy Grail where the rabbits attack the knights? That’s how a skull attacks.
Eric falls into the pond trying to wrestle the skull away from his neck.
At the house, Jenny awakens, looks through the house. She finds the dress of the Ghost Woman.
The Snows arrive, finding Jenny. She seems pretty out of it. Reverend searches for Eric and finds the body drowned in the pond. The Snows and Jenny
leave. Eric wanted Jenny dead for her money. But, did the first wife die accidentally? Mickey is at the pond as the others leave. The pond bubbles as the movie
ends.
