Miguel,
a young man with a horribly disfigured face, goes on a rampage at a masquerade
party and rapes a girl. He then brutally hacks up the young woman with a pair
of scissors. Miguel is institutionalized at a mental asylum for five years.
Afterward, he is released into the care of his sister, Manuela. Along with
their wheelchair bound mother, they operate a boarding school for young woman,
called Europe's International Youth-Club Boarding School of Languages, on
the Spanish resort of Costa Del Sol. Miguel is intrigued by Angela, a long-haired
brunette, whom he first saw on the train ride from the sanitarium. The creepy
Miguel follows her around. Miguel meets with Manuela to request that they
resume their incestuous relationship. She reminds him that it was this relationship
that made him emotionally unstable five years earlier. She says they cannot
because nobody understands them: "Only if we could get rid of everyone,
then things could go back to the way they were." Then Angela's friends
are killed one by one. One, while topless, is skewered from behind by a 12-inch
knife that exits her right nipple. Another is coerced by a romantic masked
Spaniard who insists on tying her up in an abandoned lumber mill (which according
to her is "kinky," but OK) and is decapitated quite nicely with
a large power saw, complete with squirting blood from her neck. A young boy
is run over mid-section by a Mercedes. Another friend is strangled by smoldering
fireplace tongs. There is also the real decapitation of a snake. When the
girls start to turn up missing, nobody believes Angela that there's a killer
on the loose. She had seen the corpse of one girl, and it was gone as soon
as she went for help. Confused and scared, Angela finally looks for help from
the people who run the school. The total body-count by the end of the movie
is 9 (6 females and 3 males).
