罗德岛附近的某海滨小镇，风景如画，舒适宜人，引得四方游客前来度假。但这里似乎却隐藏着不为人知的秘密。来此度假的游客或暂居此地的居民起初会受到热情款待，然而不久后他们便被残忍杀掉。更为恐怖的是，这些已经死去的人随后会再次出现岛上，以主人的身份笑迎八方宾朋。地方官丹?吉尔斯（James Farentino 饰）的妻子珍妮（lody Anderson 饰）也是这一系列奇怪事件的牺牲者，他决心查清事实真相。很快他便注意到，在一片肃杀的气氛中，似乎只有从事殡葬业务的威廉姆（Jack Albertson 饰）甚为高兴。威廉姆和奇怪事件是否有所联系？其背后的真相又将如何？

描述朝鲜战争后南韩妇女的地位。对争取独立，选择外出工作的女性似带有怀疑态度。A college professor’s wife OH Sun-young discovers a new world since she started working at a boutique. She begins to enjoy wearing dresses that accentuate her features, achieve high sales profits, and dances in the arms of men other than her husband. However, the story takes a turn when she is caught in the hotel with the owner of the boutique who has been seducing her. Madame Freedom was already a famous story since the novelist JUNG Bee-suk wrote the series in The Seoul Shinmun. Despite the controversy on the moral issues between the writer and the critics, the book was published and produced as a play by the theater group Shinhyup. The film also set a new box office record of 130,000 and its success brought the boom of melodrama. Its cultural influence is proven to be powerful enough to shake the foundation of Korean film since there have been 5 sequels and remakes since the original.

30岁的河鹏古失业多时，一直靠偷父母的钱度日。他在服兵役时因不堪军旅生活的劳顿而当了逃兵，身上只有300韩元的他决定花光所有的钱买一个平价打火机。可这只打火机却被他遗失在汉城车站的厕所里，当他返回车站寻找时，却发现打火机已在黑帮老大朱宽手中。河鹏古试图要回自己的东西，却遭到毒打。随后，他暗自跟随黑帮一伙上了火车，为的只是那个打火机。

本片改编自爱伦坡的短篇小说, 该部小说非常有名, 被改编成电影数次, 本片是由文森普莱斯於1960年主演的版本, 电影与小说不同, 稍微做了些改变。罗瑞与妹妹麦德琳相依为命, 整栋大宅只有一位年老的管家陪伴着兄妹俩。远从波士顿过来探访的年轻人-菲利普, 因为与麦德琳相恋, 想要把她从哥哥身边带走, 奈何哥哥罗瑞千方阻挠, 並且整栋大宅摇摇欲坠, 阴风阵阵, 几次的危险差点让菲利普丧命,某一天夜裡, 麦德琳死了... 菲利普痛不欲生, 无法接受她的死去, 当他知道这个家族深受邪恶的诅咒後, 麦德琳真的復活了....