The film begins with the description of an obscure occult practice in
which people feed aborted fetuses blood to raise 'young ghosts.
These ghosts become powerful and bring fortune to families but
at the same time can be commanded to bring death.
We then see an entire family hanging in a room and a young woman
crawling beneath their feet. She then proceeds to hang herself.
After the grisly opening we go forward some time. A young architect
is inheriting the house, recently back from abroad. After some
argument he manages to convince his dancer fiance to live with him,
and they celebrate one night in the house.
The next few days, strange things begin happening. Their friends start
showing up at the house at midnight with no memory of how they got
there. Footprints begin appearing on the floors, followed by strange
noises. One of the friends is later found dead in their apartment, their
neck bearing markings of being hung where no rope is present.
The detective, suspicious of the couples late night visitors spends the
night at their house hoping to catch them sneaking in. After being
witness to the strange occurrences himself, he finds his himself showing
up at the couples house late at night with no memory. In an effort
to discover the mystery behind this strangeness he handcuffs himself to
his office but that night, his body is found in the couples house, his
hands pulled from his sockets. The young fiance, disturbed by these
events, seeks out the only living relative of her husband, the one who
signed the house over to him.
The Wisconsin Court of Appeals ruled in May of 1999 in a case that
a woman who tried to get so drunk the day she gave birth she could
kill this thing was not guilty of any crime.
Authorities had argued that
Deborah Zimmerman should be prosecuted for attempted murder
based on the state's born alive rule, which says a person can be charged
with murder if he or she harms a pregnant woman and her fetus is born
alive and then dies. Prosecutors argued that the law should be extended
to attempted murder if a fetus is born with injuries but survives.
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