A nervous woman (Kathryn Leigh Scott) who was once committed to an asylum is nearly raped by an intruder (Stanley Lebor) before she shoots him in the eye with a shotgun. Her husband (Simon MacCorkindale) insists on burying the corpse in the woods surrounding their home; but is the man really dead? Or is the ghost that keeps reappearing a figment of her crazed imagination?
Peter Sasdy badly directs a putrid screenplay by Anthony Hinds that rehashes movies like "Gaslight" and "Les Diaboliques" in a way duller and more implausible than you might have imagined possible. The surprise at the end is so predictable that the only mystery is whether or not the writer was actually trying to conceal it. Sasdy gives us several gory close-ups of the corpse, including one where maggots are crawling in its eye-socket; and he has his actors ham it up as if they're playing in a parody of some kind. Did he despair of making anything but garbage from this script and decide to turn it all into a joke? The joke is on the viewer.