Silvio Narizzano directs Tallulah Bankhead in this epic horror movie, her final appearance on-screen. Bankhead plays Mrs. Trefoile, a psychotically pious mother still grieving the death of her son. Mrs. Trefoile holds his fiancée, Pat (Stefanie Powers), against her will and decides to reunite the young woman with her lover, whom she's convinced is now in heaven. But Pat has plans of her own and won't allow a crazy mother to decide her fate.