Macabre

Jane Baker begins a secret affair with Fred, hiding it from her husband and children. Lucy grows suspicious as the relationship unfolds behind closed doors in New Orleans. The affair seeds the tension that will ripple through the family life.

Lucy drowns her younger brother, Michael, in the bathtub and stages it as an accident. The act shocks the family and begins a downward spiral of fear and secrecy. The truth remains buried as life with the affair continues.

Jane receives news of Michael's death over the phone, and Fred offers to drive her home. On the way, their car crashes into a guardrail, and Fred is brutally killed while Jane survives. The tragedy marks a turning point in Jane's life and the events to follow.

A year passes and Jane separates from her husband Leslie, moving into the Duval boardinghouse where Robert now manages after Mrs. Duval's death. The building becomes the setting for Jane's new routine and hidden past. Tension between the residents begins to simmer beneath the surface.

On her first night in the boardinghouse, Jane declines dinner with Robert, then creates a shrine for Fred in the apartment. She also tends to a locked item kept in the freezer, an object she guards carefully. The atmosphere is charged with unspoken history and unease.

That night, Robert, who is blind, hears sounds suggesting Jane is in a moment of sexual arousal, which deepens his suspicions about her past and present. The incident hints at ongoing intimate ties to Fred's memory. His curiosity grows into a quiet, persistent investigation.

The next morning, Jane's estranged husband Leslie and daughter Lucy visit, but their reunion is tense and awkward. The strained interaction reveals unresolved family fractures that color future encounters. The family dynamic remains fractured and unstable.

Jane agrees to share a drink with Robert and lets him into her apartment while in the bathtub. The exchange is playful but tinged with danger, and Robert later hears Jane moaning and calling Fred's name. The moment deepens the sense that Jane is still entangled with Fred's memory.

Robert has a friend pull newspaper articles about the car accident and discovers that Jane has been in a psychiatric hospital for the past year. The findings confirm a complicated, hidden history surrounding Jane. His suspicion of deception grows as the pieces begin to fit together.

Lucy visits Jane's apartment and leaves a photo of her deceased brother on a table. Jane chastises Robert for letting Lucy in, then briefly attempts to seduce him but pulls back. Later, he again hears Jane greeting 'Fred' in the hallway, heightening the sense of an unresolved, dangerous history.

On the anniversary of Michael's death, Jane visits his grave while Robert continues his scrutiny of the apartment. He finds the locked freezer box and suspicious pillows under the bed, and Lucy arrives to visit but is turned away. The atmosphere is thick with secrets ready to spill.

That night, Robert enters Jane's apartment and discovers Jane masturbating with Fred's severed head in the bedroom. After Jane finishes, she returns the head to the freezer, and Robert realizes the bizarre truth behind the hidden object. The shock marks a turning point toward lethal outcomes.

Lucy overhears a phone call referencing Robert's discoveries and confronts him about what he knows. She later breaks into Jane's apartment to find Fred's severed head, but tells Robert that he must have imagined it. The truth remains tangled and unresolved for the moment.

During a weekend dinner, Lucy serves soup to Jane and Robert. Jane discovers an earlobe in her soup and realizes that Lucy has used flesh from Fred's severed head. In a grim confession, Lucy admits killing Michael, escalating the violence to a fatal confrontation.

Jane strangles Lucy to death at dinner, then battles Robert as he tries to defend her. She pushes him down the stairs and returns to the freezer to kiss Fred's severed head. Robert kills Jane by smashing her face into a hot oven, and as he screams for Lucy, Fred's head suddenly attacks him, biting his neck in the harrowing finale.