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In 1943, Frank Harbin goes out with a former girlfriend, Stella, while his older wife whom he married for her property, Lucy, is out of town. The night ends with them asleep in bed together. Lucy unexpectedly takes the late train home and spies her husband's adultery through the bedroom window. While their young daughter Carol watches, Lucy hacks Frank and Stella to death with an axe. At the trial, she is found not guilty by reason of insanity and confined to an asylum. Carol is sent to live with her mother's brother Bill and his wife, Emily, on their farm.

Twenty years later, Lucy is deemed mentally stable by the hospital's board and released into the care of Bill and Emily. Carol, who still lives with them and works as a sculptor out of a converted guest house on the property, is anxious to meet her mother after so long. When Lucy arrives, she is initially withdrawn and emotionally fragile but gradually seems to improve. With encouragement from Carol, she buys new clothes, jewelry, and a wig, the look causing her to resemble to how she did at the time of the killings. One night, she awakens to children's voices singing a nursery rhyme about axe murders and turns to see the severed heads of Frank and Stella on her bed. She runs to the other family members for help, but the heads are gone when they return to her room. Emily dismisses the incident as a nightmare.

The next afternoon, Carol invites Michael Fields, her boyfriend and son of the richest couple in town, over to meet her mother after telling him about her crimes. Dressing in her new clothes, Lucy is friendly at first but quickly becomes drunk and flirts with an uncomfortable Michael, who leaves. Anderson, Lucy's doctor at the asylum passing through town on a fishing trip, stops by the farm to check on her. Lucy acts erratic and evasive during their conversation before storming off, causing Dr. Anderson to tell Carol he thinks her mother was released too hastily and plans to take her back to the hospital. While looking for Lucy, he is lured into the windmill tower and killed with an axe by an unseen assailant. Noticing the doctor's car is still in the driveway at nightfall, Carol hides it in the barn, being watched by farmhand Leo Krause. When she finds her mother, Lucy admits she can't remember the past few hours and fears she may have murdered Anderson.

The next day, Leo threatens to blackmail Carol unless she gives him the car. Shortly afterwards, he finds Anderson's body in the slaughterhouse freezer and is decapitated by the killer. Later that night, Carol convinces an anxious Lucy to have dinner with Michael and his parents at their mansion, accompanied by Bill and Emily. Though the evening goes well at first, while the rest of the party is touring the property, Lucy and Michael's mother Allison get into an argument over Carol's plans to marry her son, which Allison believes would be beneath his social standing. Lucy flees the mansion and runs into the fields, with Bill and Michael going out to look for her.

While Allison waits for their return, Michael's father Raymond is hacked to death in the bedroom closet. Investigating his absence, Allison find his corpse and is attacked by the killer, wearing a latex mask resembling Lucy. The real Lucy, returning to apologize for her outburst, surprises and subdues the killer, removing the mask to reveal Carol. In a crazed monologue, she says she always hated Lucy for leaving her without a parents growing up and planned to butcher Michael's disapproving mother and father so the couple could inherit the Fields family money, framing Lucy for the crimes. She also reveals she planted the fake severed heads in the bedroom, played the nursery rhyme on a tape recorder, and killed both Dr. Anderson and Leo for interfering with her plan.

Sometime later, Bill and a now-sane Lucy pack up the workshop as they prepare to visit Carol, who is now locked up in the same asylum her mother was held in.

Pleasure Ports

Ports of Pleasure
Studio album by Les Baxter and His Orchestra
Released	1957
Genre	Exotica
Label	Capitol
Les Baxter and His Orchestra chronology
Midnight on the Cliffs (1957) Ports of Pleasure (1957) Pharaoh's Curse (OST) (1957)

Ports of Pleasure is a 1957 exotica album by Les Baxter. It was released on the Capitol label (catalog no. T-868).

AllMusic later gave the album a rating of four-and-a-half out of five stars. Reviewer Jason Ankeny wrote: "Baxter...calls forth fascinating impressions of the mysterious East -- those small dots on the globe where one's index finger lingers longest...Ports of Pleasure is, above all, a journey to the center of the mind." David Toop in his book Exotica - Fabricated Soundscapes in a Real World was more critical, calling the music "innocent, innocuous, touristic [and] at times mediocre.", while the website AmbientExotica found the album darker than Baxter's previous work, noting its "mysterious" air and feelings of "sadness".

Track listing

Side 1

1. "Tahiti: A Summer Night at Sea"
2. "Hong Kong Cable Car"
3. "The Gates of Annam"
4. "Shanghai Rickshaw"
5. "Tramp Steamer to Singapore"
6. "Spice Islands Sea Birds"

Side 2

1. "City of Veils"
2. "Monkey Dance of Bali"
3. "Harem Silks from Bombay"
4. "Sidewalk Cafes of Saigon"
5. "The Pearls of Ceylon"
6. "Bangkok Cockfight"