约翰(比利·查平 Billy Chapin 饰)和佩尔(萨莉·简·布鲁斯 Sally Jane Bruce 饰)是一对苦命的兄妹,他们的父亲本(彼得·格雷夫斯 Peter Graves 饰)因抢劫和被判处绞刑。在被逮捕前,本把赃款藏在了佩尔的布娃娃里,并让他们承诺永远不泄露这个秘密。本的狱友哈利(罗伯特·米彻姆 Robert Mitchum 饰)是一个败絮其中的牧师,偶然间他得知了这笔赃款的去向,出狱后,哈利找到了本的妻子薇拉(谢利·温特斯 Shelley Winters 饰),他想方设法得到了薇拉的芳心成为了约翰和佩尔的继父,就此,哈利的阴谋开始了。哈利杀死了对于他来说毫无价值的薇拉,将他弃尸河底,又对兄妹两人威逼利诱想要套出赃款的秘密。在所有努力都没有成果之际,恼羞成怒的哈利露出的本来面目。约翰和佩尔划着小船逃离了哈利,他们一路流浪来到了一个陌生的小镇,专门收养弃婴的善良妇人理查德(丽莲·吉许 Lillian Gish 饰)收留了兄妹两,然而平静的生活没过多久,哈利罪恶的脚步也踏上了这块纯洁的土地。
影片根据发生在法国国王路易十五统治时期的真实事件改编。 18世纪60年代中期,法国路易十五在位时,一只凶残异常的巨狼一直威胁着吉瓦冈地区,而受害者多是妇女和儿童。一时间,全法国都被触目惊心的血腥杀戮震惊了,无人知道凶兽真正面貌,有人盛传是魔鬼化身。为安定民心,路易十五指派皇家骑士弗朗萨克(塞缪尔·勒·比汉 Samuel Le Bihan 饰)捕杀怪兽。在吉瓦冈逗留期间,弗朗萨克爱上了当地伯爵的女儿玛丽安(艾米莉•德奎恩饰),还与美艳动人的官妓西尔维亚(莫妮卡·贝鲁奇 Monica Bellucci 饰)有染,并结识了玛丽安的哥哥让-弗朗索瓦(文森特·卡索 Vincent Cassel 饰)。随着调查的逐渐深入,弗朗萨克从被害者遗体上发现了一颗钢牙,而一位目击者发誓宣称有人控制着巨狼。随着调查,掀起更恐怖阴谋,一场场血腥杀戮战连串发生……
811 AD, a family, isolated in their home, deep in the woods a few days travel from Birka. They are poor. The hunting and fishing has been bad for some time, and the father, Joar, takes the desperate measure of going on a Viking raid. Joar does not return for a long time, and the family starts to fear he never will. Runa, the oldest daughter, takes over her fathers chores in his absence. She misses him dearly and nourishes a tender hope that he, once again, will return to them. But in her heart, somehow she knows, that the suffering of the family has just begun. There is something in the air, something in the water, the wind and in the soil. Runa is becoming aware of something vile, something dangerous out in the forest. One day when she is out hunting, she finds a bleeding man, a warrior, almost unconscious. She brings him inside and the family tend to his wounds. As he heals, she realizes he is sent to protect the family from an approaching evil. And he brings news of her father.
Filming a vampire flick in an old, abandoned manor house should have worked like a dream, but the film crew is out of their depth, over schedule and desperate to get the shoot finished and go home.However, as the moon turns full, the nightmare begins. Blood flows and the body count rises as cast and crew meet the manor’s resident werewolf…”