Its plot follows an agoraphobic novelist who rents a rural mansion that she comes to find is haunted by the prostitute victims of a mass murder that occurred there in the 1940s.

While not prosecuted for obscenity, the film was seized and confiscated in the UK under Section 3 of the Obscene Publications Act 1959 during the video nasty panic [4] New York City novelist Lauren Cochran suffers from agoraphobia and, in a bid to overcome her ailment, she rents a stately Victorian mansion in the country from a scientist, Daniel Griffith and his ailing grandfather, Colonel Lebrun.

At the end of the film, she experiences a vivid hallucination in which her manuscript begins burning, and she witnesses Frank's truck crash into the house, and catch fire.

[7] The Miami Herald's Bill Cosford praised the film, describing it as "scary and not overworked, and Weston shows a fine, gloomy hand at times.

"[8] Robert C. Trussell of The Kansas City Star praised Groves's performance, but felt the film overall was "a substandard horror effort that tries to compensate for its trite plot with large helpings of gratuitous sex and violence.

"[9] TV Guide awarded the film 1/5 stars, calling it "an intriguing effort that effectively combines traditional haunted-house chills with a more modern emphasis on gore.

When it wants to be a straight-up haunted house horror show, it works well; the score is definitely a high point when the film is in this mode, as the frenzied music shrieks to create tension and mood.