[1][2][3] Carl the Gardner (Joe Dallesandro) grows odd plants for a rich Yankee woman Ellen Bennett (Katharine Houghton) living in South America while exercising a mental hold over her.

While noting that the film was "dull and unexciting", Butane stated that the DVD's extras made it worth buying.

panned the film, criticizing the lack of atmosphere, threadbare plot, sluggish pacing, and dull photography.

[7] Glenn Erickson from DVD Talk criticized the film's lack of scares or tension, and script, calling it "yet another ill-fated attempt to try something different in a horror movie".

[8] According to director James H. Kay, on the evening when the scene in which Warhol superstar Joe Dallesandro's character swims nude in the pool was filmed half of San Juan showed up to watch the shoot.