When the naval construction designer Oliver Reed (Kent Smith) meets the Serbian Irena Dubrovna Reed (Simone Simon) in the zoo, he flirts with her and they sooner fall in love and marry each other. However, Irena is afraid of an ancient course of her town that women can not be touched by a man, otherwise she will transform in a panther, and the couple does not consummate their marriage. Irena is sent for treatment with the psychiatrist Dr. Louis Judd (Tom Conway), while Oliver looks for "consolation" with his colleague Alice Moore (Jane Randolph). When Irena sees that she is losing Oliver to Alice, she becomes jealous and hateful, leading to a tragic end.
麦迪森(安娜贝拉·沃丽丝 Annabelle Wallis 饰)在梦中不断看到恐怖谋杀案现场的幻象,而这些幻象实际上是真实发生过的凶案,她决定挖掘真相和自己的过去,却发现这一切与一位名叫“盖博瑞”的魔鬼有关。