A shrink buys a murder mansion for his unstable girlfriend. What could go wrong? Everything.
Kate's a single mom rock star recovering from a nervous breakdown; David is her psychiatrist turned lover. After David buys an old Charleston mansion and Kate and her son move in with him, strange events occur including the discoveries of a secret hidden attic and the diary of the murderous slave trader who owned the home. Kate hears a piano playing by itself and sees the ghost of the slave trader who once lived there. Their relationship is strained by the bizarre events as Kate's sanity is again questioned as she insists what she's seen is real...but is it?
Production
Actual Charleston location gives budget film unexpected gravitas.
Acting
Mary Page Keller commits to hysteria with admirable conviction.
Director
Richard Friedman
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Richard Friedman also made Doom Asylum (1987), cementing his niche in spectacularly unhinged low-budget horror.
The film awkwardly grafts slavery onto a standard haunted house template without meaningful engagement—typical of 1980s horror's extractive relationship with Black trauma for cheap shocks.
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