Laura calls the police, but they arrive to find no body nor traces of any crime and cite her for a false alarm.
Laura faints and visits a doctor the next day for a brain scan, where she receives prescription drugs from Dr. Kelton.
A visit to the police station does not help her, and when she investigates Mark's death herself, she finds that his sister, Jennifer, is a mental patient.
Nurse Crenshaw explains to her that she escaped from the institution over a year ago, following an attack by a man who appears to be Cindy's murderer.
At the police station, Kelton explains that the Ouija board brought out Laura's subconscious fears that Mark would kill her.
Mark then locked Laura in a closet and set the apartment on fire, hoping she would die as well, but she escaped and fell into a coma.
[1] Her casting in the film was an unusual one: according to the actress, she received a call from her agent about a script, read it immediately, and drove to the studio an hour later, expecting a meeting.
[2] John J. O'Connor of The New York Times said the film "keeps turning quirkily enough to arouse curiosity" and concluded that it "may not be convincing but it is slyly amusing.