(Present Day)
(Briarcliff)
(Outside)
Leo: Just look sexy, please. (A pair of newlyweds explore abandoned Briarcliff Manor.) Come on. Legend has it that once you are committed at Briarcliff, you never got out. Their most famous resident was a serial killer. Leo: Teresa! Something flashes in front of the screen and he screams. Sister Jude : (to Sister Mary Eunice) Take her to the common room so the others can witness her newfound immaculacy. Lana Winters. That young woman is a victim of her own lust. (The asylum watches as Bloody Face is brought in: it's Kit Walker.) (In his cell in a straight jacket, Kit thinks of his wife. (Wendy avoids Lana who wants to kiss her.) (She nods.)Good. Kit: Grace? I'm Dr. Arthur Arden. Dr. Arden : There was a time when a fanatic like Sister Jude could have had me thrown in prison for my ideas, tortured. (She is grabbed by a large arm.) Sister Jude : But surely, you're not her family? (Asylum.)
Plan: A: a newlywed couple; Q: Who are Teresa and Leo? A: the now-abandoned Briarcliff Manor; Q: What do Teresa and Leo explore in the present day? A: a former insane asylum; Q: What is Briarcliff Manor? A: rural Massachusetts; Q: Where is Briarcliff Manor located? A: "Bloody Face; Q: What was the name of the serial killer Kit Walker was accused of being? A: his innocence; Q: What does Kit protest in the film? A: Grace; Q: Who is the inmate who Kit befriends at Briarcliff? A: her family; Q: What is Grace believed to have murdered? A: Journalist Lana Winters; Q: Who trespasses onto Briarcliff Manor? A: a better career; Q: What does Lana Winters want to gain by exposing the mistreatment of inmates? A: Wendy Peyser; Q: Who is Lana Winters' lover? A: a teacher; Q: What is Wendy Peyser's profession? A: the tyrannical Sister Jude; Q: Who has Lana Winters committed to the asylum because of her homosexuality? A: A bitter rivalry; Q: What is ignited between Sister Jude and Dr. Arthur Arden? Summary: In present day, a newlywed couple, Teresa and Leo, explore the now-abandoned Briarcliff Manor, a former insane asylum in rural Massachusetts. Flashback to 1964 when Kit Walker is being committed there, accused of being infamous serial killer "Bloody Face". Kit protests his innocence and flashes of his scattered memory suggest something far more sinister responsible. At Briarcliff, Kit befriends Grace, a fellow inmate believed to have murdered her family. Journalist Lana Winters trespasses onto Briarcliff, intent on exposing its mistreatment of inmates, so she can gain a better career for her and for her lover Wendy Peyser, a teacher. She is confronted by the tyrannical Sister Jude, who has her committed to the asylum because of her homosexuality . A bitter rivalry is ignited between Sister Jude and Dr. Arthur Arden.