Cameron Mitchell plays Vincent Renard, a former film special effects artist who is disfigured by Max Block, the head of Paragon Pictures, and also a rival for the affections of a woman (Anne Helm).

Leaving the film industry, Vince becomes a recluse and opens a wax museum.

Vincent Renard has liquor thrown in his face while lighting a cigarette during a party.

It turns out that he has taken the theory of a Doctor Zerkai of using truth serum and a compound called Nerving will put a person into suspend animation for centuries and put it into practice to fill his museum.

Max Black laughs and an enraged Vince lunges forward and falls into the pool of molten wax.