尖叫的. 头骨

The fil_m opens%@ with a narrated disclaimer o_!ver footage of an `open@ing co\`ffin. The n=.(arr[)ato#r explains,?_ t,+ha t the f?+i$!lm's climax@
` is so \ter`-rifyi![#^ng th=at it may  ]kil=^l the view+,er, )_./and reass=/ures t-,he audien=$,$.ce ?that/^ ) if they die
:of frigh
t while #$
w+atc $hing the film,\ the+y[ will@ receive a, free/#%@ bu=;(rial service, and it\ closes on the =;]%casket wh[@ ich has a card inside reading R@eserved for You;-.[1].: 　*　Newlyweds $ J;)enni (Peggy Webb  er) and* Eric (John Hudson) move@ into Eric's palatial countr!-y home. $/J_\enni [.is Eric's secon:*d wife; his f* ir\st wife Marion _died when s]he a@ccidentally! s*l@ipped and hit her hea`d on the e_dge\@# of a decorative pond: .
on the estate.`(! At the home t`?hey me.et Eri(]?=c's.# frie *n%=;ds, the R=everend[.@ `)%@ Sno-?.w ;
(Russ C%+onwa+;-y) and ?his wife (Toni J _[ohn@*;son))(#, as ;w\##ell as Mickey (Alex Nicol), the devel#op(\+\menta?^]lly) disabled ga\rdener. Eric_ privatel:)y mention(s to ;the (`= Snows ^/ :that Jenni sp[.[ent\[?%] ti/m._e i(n an asyl *-+um; _ fo:\llo% wing the sudden @ death of bo.%^; th ++her \pare]n_ts, and :Mrs.- Snow rev /ea@l= %*s that Jenni is very wealthy.　,　Jenni is distur^be/^@d both by Mick=ey's ` belief that Marion's g\hos:t= _wanders ^,t$[h,e e*state and by._ Marion's s?\elf-port\ rait^ @??inside ?the h:!ouse, which Jenni$ believe[s resembles her,* mother. When she =begins to hear\ unex_plained screa@ming [,noi ses and se@e skulls -
a.; r% (ou
=nd her.,` h[-ouse,$* she believes that Mari ]on++( $is ha#unting he`r. Though Eric %_, specu:, lates to Jen?,ni@ that Mickey, who w ;)^a%s a )^`childhood friend o$ f Marion and thus(` dislikes Je!^;nn!,*i, may be behind#= the ` trickery, :*+( Jenn@i worries th !)at/$ she is going insane.[
Eri\c / the[n suggests to r ;emo``ve Marion's self@$$--portrait fr- om the home. Eri!\c and Jenn%:)/i take the painting_ outsid e an_d bur ].n it. ::While they clean ()
up the remains of- the]$ pa# in?+:\t+ing, a skull em$))erges$=;# fr:!`om the_# ashes. /Wh@%ile Jenn ?i pani\$cs at the] sight o/$f the skull, Eri c denies tha=/
t t@$he skull is there. J+_enni faints] a; +n\+d Eric withdr+aws the!^ skull_ and hides it, reveali ng that he ?-was*) res._@p-.onsi@bl]$#[e for the t
ricker[y all a^long in a
]:n effor,t to get
*/^ hold _of h$(er wealth.　　Believing ^!she ha?
,s finally lo.s?@t he_r sanity @, Jen$ni r

es,`*olv[$^^es :to be:
comm $$(itted. She ^[tel!/@^ls /
Eric that (the e]nti,,^re pr@opert-]y will be me/++ticulo.u,$sly?: se-_^arched f#o!r the sk (ull^* a)s a[ last re@(# sor):t. Be^:_fore Eric can re_tr
!`iev)e ./it, Mickey @secret@ly steals the skull and brings +it to ? t?
he Re_veren+\d, revealing Eric's \[plans. That night , :-Eric pr^.epa`res to murder Jenni and 
stage it as a suici =de./* Jenni sees M.*a= -rion's ghost in Mickey's gree!-nhouse and,  f,/^le^?[e=)s ,(b/ack to th[ e house. !@;
=Whe( n she $)enters,  Eric begins_ t!^hrottlin*)?g her. 
^The gh #o],st then #\%ap pears_\+ a_-@nd _^]ch[)[ases /
E-*ric ou:#t)%side and$ about the property; ;it f)!(ina$lly corners an@]=(d
*@attacks him, drowning him in th`e ^d_
%:ecorative pond.　　After Jenni regains consciousness, the =Sn=ow:=%s arriv;e. M.^rs. Sno*w  ._comforts a hysteri*cal Jenni (_^and t#he Reverend\, d_iscovers E_r`*i_.c's bo_]:;#dy
 in the pond.  Some u)@`ndisclosed : ^,+time/ l.ater, Jen_ni (and the S[/=nows:? d/-epart from th- e house. R?everend% Sno( /w declares ] wh!?^et`her or not/@ Mari+=on's death was an \?ac#,cident+]] wil^l remain a my!^stery.