Charles Dexter Wards wife enlists the help of a private detective to find out what her husband is up to in a remote cabin owned by his family for centuries. Thehusband is a chemical engineer| and the smells from his experiments (and the delivery of what appear to be human remains at all hours) are beginning to arouse theattention of neighbors and local law enforcement officials. When the detective and wife find a diary of the husbands ancestor from 1771| and reports of gruesomemurders in the area begin to surface| they begin to suspect that some very unnatural experiments are being conducted in the old house. Based on an H.P. Lovecraft

如果说外婆和母亲让伯格曼感受了艺术的魔力和快乐的美好瞬间;那么父亲则给了他阴郁的个性和白日梦的习惯，或许还有那些深沉的宗教情怀和抹不去的焦虑之感。