There, he has an epiphany: the night of Helga's murder it was not a missing painting he saw, but rather a reflection of the killer, framed in a mirror- specifically, Marcus saw the killer's reflection when he first entered the apartment. Remembering that the night Helga died he met Carlo utterly intoxicated and coming from a very different direction than the scene of the killing, Marcus reinvestigates the apartment crime scene. When the truck stops, an oncoming car runs over Carlo's head.Īt the hospital, Marcus learns that Gianna has survived. The police arrive and Carlo flees into the dark street where a garbage truck hits him and drags him down the street. Marcus corners the attacker- it is Carlo, who as a kid drew the disturbing pictures. When Gianna leaves to call the police, someone stabs her. Marcus finds the drawing in a schoolboy's record. Marcus and Gianna immediately go to the school. She tells him she saw the picture in the archives of the local school. As Marcus and Gianna wait at the caretaker's house for the police, Marcus notices that the caretaker's daughter has drawn a picture identical to the hidden mural he found in the house. Gianna appears, explaining that she got his message about investigating the house and arrived in time to save him. Marcus awakens outside the house, which is burning. Villa Scott, "The House of the Screaming Child" in the film. Someone knocks Marcus unconscious as he backs away in horror. In the middle of the dusty floor sits a desiccated corpse. Meanwhile, Marcus finds a walled-off room in the abandoned house. He then is brutally murdered that night after the black-gloved killer distracts him with a disturbing mechanized doll. Giordani, who has been assisting Marcus's investigation, visits the scene of the author's murder and uses steam to find a clue written on the mirror.
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He leaves for the night before the full image of the mural is revealed. Under sheetrock he uncovers a disturbing mural: a child holding a bloody knife over a dead body. Using the photo, Marcus finds and investigates the huge abandoned house. However, the killer has been watching Marcus and brutally murders the author before Marcus can speak to her by drowning her in scalding water.
He rips out the picture, planning to learn more from the book's author. Marcus reads the folklore book and finds a photo of the house in it. Gianna begins helping Marcus because she feels guilty for taking his photo. Giordani, noting that Helga also heard a child's song, recalls a book of modern folklore describing a local haunted house where a child's song is sometimes heard. That night, someone plays a recording of a child's song outside his door Marcus manages to lock the door before the person can enter, but he hears the gruff whisper "I'll kill you sooner or later." Marcus tells Giordani, whom he met at Helga's funeral, about the encounter.
The media identifies Marcus as the eyewitness and shows Gianna's photo of him. The next morning, after arguing with Gianna about women's liberation, he visits Carlo's home to check on him but only finds Carlo's eccentric mother Martha, who seems interested in Marcus. Outside, Marcus encounters his alcoholic friend Carlo, who he helps get home. Reporter Gianna Brezzi arrives and photographs Marcus. After the police arrive, Marcus thinks one of the apartment's paintings has disappeared, but he cannot pinpoint what is missing. Jazz musician Marcus Daly sees the attack from below and rushes to her apartment, finding her mutilated corpse. That night, a black-gloved figure invades Helga's apartment and kills her with a meat cleaver. She believes she can identify the person she sensed in the shadows, someone watches them. After the lecture, Helga tells Giordani she also heard a child's song during the psychic link. Helga is suddenly overwhelmed by the "twisted, perverted, murderous" thoughts of someone in the audience. A bloody knife falls to the floor at a child's feet.Ģ0 years later in Turin, Professor Giordani chairs a parapsychology conference featuring psychic medium Helga Ulmann. In silhouette against the wall of a living room, one figure stabs another to death.