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Horror, murder, mystery and mayhem make up the principal ingredients of the Theatre de Morte. New director Phillipe Darvas [Christopher Lee], son of the old director, vows to dedicate his life to the theatre, as did his father. At the opening night cast party, patroness Mme Angelique [Evelyn Laye] requests that Darvas give a preview of coming attractions, so Darvas asks Dani Gireaux [Lelia Goldoni] and newcomer Nicole Chapelle [Jenny Till] to perform a scene from 'The Witches of Salem'.

Darvas first hypnotizes the scared Nicole who then performs so realistically that Dani's boyfriend, Dr. Charles Marquis [Julian Glover], interrupts the scene when it looks like Nicole intends to burn Dani's face with the hot poker she is brandishing. Charles, a police surgeon recuperating from a hand injury, is meanwhile investigating the deaths of 3 women, all stabbed in the neck with a sharp item, all drained of blood, a situation known to police as 'hemaphagia', to the public as vampire.