The credits fade onto a blind man tapping his way down the sidewalk,he enters a dingy boarding house and hears a shot fired in one of the upstairs bedrooms. A door opens from audience POV. A man tumbles out of the door and falls, slides and slithers down two flights of stairs and is dead when he hits the bottom. Then follows nearly 100 minutes of flashback and flashbacks-within-flashbacks about a veteran returing from the war, tired and disillusioned, only to find that he girl he loves has lied to him about her relationship with another man, and that man is sadistic, boastful and tauntful.

　　本片改编自爱伦坡的短篇小说, 该部小说非常有名, 被改编成电影数次, 本片是由文森普莱斯於1960年主演的版本, 电影与小说不同, 稍微做了些改变。　　罗瑞与妹妹麦德琳相依为命, 整栋大宅只有一位年老的管家陪伴着兄妹俩。远从波士顿过来探访的年轻人-菲利普, 因为与麦德琳相恋, 想要把她从哥哥身边带走, 奈何哥哥罗瑞千方阻挠, 並且整栋大宅摇摇欲坠, 阴风阵阵, 几次的危险差点让菲利普丧命,某一天夜裡, 麦德琳死了... 菲利普痛不欲生, 无法接受她的死去, 当他知道这个家族深受邪恶的诅咒後, 麦德琳真的復活了....

两位壮汉刑警在调查一起银行劫案时，发现犯罪分子居然个个刀枪不入。根据线索，他们找到一家公司，似乎最近的很多案件都和这家公司的一个秘密实验室有关。 　　后来，此两位硬汉在与犯罪分子的斗争中不幸相继殉职，但这恰好给他们创造了机会——两个人亦成为试验品，他们的尸体即将被一个怀揣着极大阴谋的邪恶博士所利用……然而，哼哼，英勇的人民公安是不会向犯罪集团低头的，you can't keep a good cop dead！

In 1828, the bankrupt Pyncheon family fight over Seven Gables, the ancestral mansion. To obtain the house, Jaffrey Pyncheon obtains his brother Clifford's false conviction for murder. Hepzibah, Clifford's sweet fiancée, patiently waits twenty years for his release, whereupon Clifford and his former cellmate, abolitionist Matthew, have a certain scheme in mind.

In seventeenth century England Lord Whitman wages unending war on what he sees as the ever-present scourge of witchcraft, and many local villagers have suffered at his hands. But one victim uses her occult powers to curse his family, enlisting unknowing help from one of the household.