During a tour of
Toledo, Lisa Reiner encounters a fresco that depicts the Devil carrying off the dead. Hearing music, Lisa wanders into a shop, where she finds a music box topped with rotating figurines. The shop owner, who is helping a man named Leandro design a mustachioed dummy, informs Lisa that the box belongs to Leandro, who resembles the Devil in the fresco. Lisa flees and becomes lost. She re-encounters Leandro, who points her through a nearby arch. After climbing a stairway, Lisa is confronted by Carlos, who resembles Leandro’s dummy. He refers to her as "Elena" and claims that he has come back for her. A distressed Lisa pushes him away, inadvertently causing him to fall to his apparent death. She flees and cries for help. As night falls, Lisa
hitchhikes with a couple, Francis and Sophia Lehar, and their chauffeur George. The car breaks down, and the group seek refuge at a nearby villa, where Leandro serves as butler to a blind countess and her son Maximilian, who convinces her to let the group spend the night at a cottage on the property until George repairs the car. Sophia and George have sex while Francis bathes. Lisa flees the cottage after seeing Carlos try to enter through a window. She runs into Maximilian, who says that she saw Leandro carrying his Carlos dummy. He alludes to a previous romance between Lisa and himself, despite Lisa's denial. Lisa and the Lehars dine with Maximilian and the countess. Maximilian delivers dessert to a detained person in an upstairs bedroom. He tells the detainee that Carlos has returned and vows to never again let him come between them. He burns a photograph of Elena, who resembles Lisa. Lisa has erotic visions of Elena with Carlos, and then of herself kissing Maximilian, who morphs into Carlos, to her horror. Outside, Francis insults and slaps Sophia for her extramarital affair. Sophia discovers the body of George, who has been stabbed to death and left in the car. Maximilian and Leandro advise Francis to leave George's corpse with them and depart without involving the police. Maximilian vows to Lisa that he will never leave her, but the countess interrupts and chastises her son. Lisa wanders away and encounters Carlos, who tells her to wait while he spies on Leandro. Lisa sees Leandro entering the estate's chapel and apparently arranging Carlos’s body in a coffin, but then she immediately runs into Carlos outside again. She flees into the villa and discovers a bedroom full of dummies, then faints when Carlos suddenly reappears. Francis tries to force Sophia to leave with him in the car, but she runs him over and returns to the villa. In the dummy room, she witnesses Maximilian bludgeoning Carlos to death as Carlos tries to revive Lisa. Maximilian pursues and murders Sophia. In the chapel, the countess addresses Carlos’s body and reveals that Carlos was her husband, Maximilian’s stepfather, who had an affair with Maximilian’s lover, Elena. Leandro revives Lisa, takes her measurements, and tells her that Carlos is dead. Lisa finds the countess examining Sophia’s body and runs to Maximilian, who leads her to the bedroom where he is detaining Elena, now a skeletonized corpse. Maximilian
chloroforms and rapes Lisa, but is interrupted by sounds of Elena’s laughter. The countess offers to conceal Maximilian’s murders if he will disavow or possibly kill Lisa. Maximilian stabs the countess to death. He later encounters the corpses of Sophia, Francis, Elena, Carlos, and George seated at a table as the undead countess approaches him. Backing away in fear, Maximilian falls out of a window to his death. Leandro appears behind the countess, who goes limp like a dummy. Lisa awakens in the villa’s ruins. She encounters a Maximilian dummy and seems to hear it imploring her to stay. She leaves and frightens a group of schoolgirls, one of whom states that no one has lived at the villa for a hundred years. Lisa boards a plane but discovers that the other passengers are the corpses from the villa and the pilot is Leandro, who watches as Lisa crumples to the floor and turns into a dummy dressed like Elena. == Cast ==