It was directed by Mino Guerrini and stars Franco Nero, Gioia Pascal, and Erika Blanc.

A young count, who lives with his domineering, jealous mother, begins on a downward spiral into madness after his fiancée dies in a car accident.

Soon after, Mino begins bringing prostitutes to his mansion, where he makes love to them in the same bed in which he keeps his fiancée's stuffed corpse.

Marta discovers the murders and offers to help him dispose of the bodies in acid, if he agrees to marry her and make her the countess.

[2] The film's credits state the plot is based on famed serial killer Gilles de Rais but this is fictional.

[4] The rejection also noted that "In addition many scenes of almost full female nudity and excessively graphic intercourses, the film features episodes of necrophilia, close-ups of horrific scenes with blood and brutal violence, presented with real sadism and a protracted insistence which conveys a sense of complacency by part of the makers".