Marie conspired with her lover, Gaston, to kill Zoltan by sabotaging the equipment for his most famous and dangerous escapology trick inspired by ' The Pit and the Pendulum' by Edgar Allan Poe, Zoltan would escape from being strapped to a chair with a built-in axe that swung back and forth above him and lowering until it killed him, all while his head was covered with a burning hood. Zoltan murdered his wives in grotesque ways remotely connected to their enjoyed hobby or career Hortencia, who spent most of her time in the greenhouse is stabbed with gardening tools before being suffocated with mulch Victoria (an alcoholic) is killed when Zoltan slams her head onto a wine bottle that's on the table during an argument (the bottle goes through her eye) an overly talkative third wife, Leonora, has her head turned 360 degrees in one of Zoltan's contraptions, and finally (in another of the game's most controversial film sequences), the food-loving Regina is force fed animal entrails through a funnel until she chokes and dies.Įxploring further, Adrienne finds out that Zoltan met his demise when his last wife, Marie, realized he was a murderer. As far as the townspeople know, the wives died naturally however tragically, but as Adrienne explores the house she starts to see visions of the murders taking place.

Adrienne digs into her new home's history and learns of the deaths of Zoltan's wives and his daughter Sofia. She meets Harriet, a homeless superstitious woman taking refuge in her barn along with her mentally challenged son.

Soon she receives ominous messages from a fortune teller machine in the manor, as well as occasionally hearing strange music. Don becomes more aggressive towards his wife and even rapes her in a controversial scene. Unknown to the happy two, Zoltan the magician was into black magic and had summoned an evil demon which possessed him, causing him to murder his wives.Īdrienne unwittingly releases it shortly after moving in during her exploration of the manor and it possesses Don. Immediately upon moving into the house, Adrienne begins having nightmares. Adrienne is hoping to get in the mood for writing her next novel and Don, a photographer, wants to photograph things.

The story by Roberta Williams, somewhat similar to that of The Shining, revolves around paperback writer Adrienne Delaney, who has together with her husband Donald Gordon just bought a remote, enormous mansion previously owned by a famous magician in the late 19th century, Zoltan Carnovasch (Carno).

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