Dr. Bill Cortner (Jason Evers) has been performing experimental surgery on human guinea pigs without authorization and against the advice of his father, also a surgeon. When Bill's fiancée, Jan Compton (Virginia Leith), is decapitated in an automobile accident, he manages to keep her brain alive. He now needs to find a new body for his bride-to-be and settles on Doris Powell (Adele Lamont), a glamour model with a facial disfigurement. Jan doesn't want to continue her body-less existence and calls upon the creature hidden in the basement, one of Bill Cortner's unsuccessful experiments, to break loose.
Whilst out on a rowboat with his wife Louise (Luana Anders), John has a heart attack and dies. She hides his death telling the family he left on an urgent business trip because she can only hope to inherit part of his family fortune if he's still alive. The Halorans are still grieving over the de...
In flashback, New York nightclub pianist Al Roberts (Tom Neal) hitchhikes to Hollywood to join his girl, Sue (Claudia Drake). On a rainy night, the sleazy gambler he's riding with mysteriously dies; afraid of the police, Roberts takes the man's identity. But thanks to a blackmailing dame Vera (An...
Newlyweds Eric (John Husdon) and Jenni (Peggy Webber) retire to his desolate mansion, where Eric's first wife Marianne died from a mysterious freak accident. Jenni, who has a history of mental illness, begins to see strange things including a mysterious skull, which may or may not be a product of...