In order to keep his blood pure, Baron Van Heckmer in the Swiss Alps decided to marry his sister. His sister was against it and was in pain, so the baron raped his sister Vanessa Van Heckmer. Because of consanguineous union, all births are deformed, and the survival rate is not high. In the later stage, the younger sister even became infertile.
In order to find a formula, the baron began to do some experiments, and then he found that the eel can purify the human body, and the human oil essence steamed/squeezed from the human body can not only make his sister pregnant with her own child again, but even prolong her life. , relieve aging. Because a person can only produce a certain amount of human oil essence, during the pregnancy of his sister, more and more mummified corpses appeared in the village, and the villagers began to suspect that the Baron had something to do with those mummified corpses (the missing persons).
So, the villagers who finally discovered the truth set fire to the Baron's mansion; on the way, the villagers also found the imprisoned Baron's sister Vanessa, the angry villagers cut Vanessa's stomach open and threw the baby girl into a puddle . At this moment, the baron who escaped from the fire rushed over and snatched the baby girl after a fight...
Because he mastered the scientific research results of immortality and had abundant funds, the baron who had changed in disguise was in the mansion again. A mansion was rebuilt on the original site and turned into a for-profit sanatorium... The Baron, as the director of the sanatorium, Henry Womer, continued to use the old man as a cover to secretly extract essential oils from the human body... Because the Baron changed it with a human skin mask. Because of his appearance, the villagers did not discover his identity...
The baron and his daughter Hannah lived like this for another few decades or hundreds of years...During this period, the baron also used the drug to buy off local officials and believers. Her daughter Hannah has never been allowed to go down the mountain. In addition, the European countryside will not change much because of the closure and conservativeness, so she does not know current affairs. Because the people who extract essential oils are all elderly, and they will die within a few years, so the truth has not been exposed... But Hannah's growth is slow, causing her menstrual period to come very slowly, so the baron waited dozens of times. Years expecting her daughter Hannah to become physically mature, so that her daughter will be able to conceive her own child again...
At this time, Roland Panber, CEO of the American Wall Street financial giant, also came to a sanatorium deep in the Swiss Alps for vacation. Unexpectedly, the company's plan to acquire another financial company leaked, causing the stock price to plummet... Acting director Hank Green wanted to send business elite Bill Morris to pick up Pember back to the company. Unexpectedly, Bill Morris died of a heart attack. ... Green then sent Lakha, a young business backbone, to Switzerland...
So, Lakha waded into the dark muddy water for extracting human essential oils... The reason why the
Baron has been successfully draining the essential oils from the customers who come here is, It was because it maliciously put eel roes in the water for customers to drink. After drinking the water containing fish eggs, the customer began to feel unwell soon, so he believed the baron's words, admitted that he was ill, and accepted the baron's proposal to live in the sanatorium for a long time without leaving... Because of the parasitic fish in the body, so The bodies of these convalescent "patients" begin to show symptoms of dehydration, accompanied by tooth loss... At this time, the Baron will carry out the ultimate plan, under the guise of intensive treatment, and begin to put "patients" in retorts to extract the human body Essential oils... Of course, after several extractions, the human body will dehydrate faster, and these "patients" will die faster... When the human body dries up and dies, the baron will instruct his subordinates to secretly throw the mummified corpse into the puddle in the secret room to feed the eels... ...
Of course, the hero Lakha's experience is also the same as the above situation. He drank the water with hidden secrets and became unwell and was hospitalized... Then, his teeth began to fall out... The difference is that Lakha happened to discover the baron's hidden malicious behavior, and It was found out that Hannah was the Baron's daughter... but it was too late, and in the end Rakha was murdered...
In the ending clip of the film, Lakha showed an evil smile at the corner of his mouth and rode a bicycle with Hannah out of the burning nursing home. This Lakha with a mysterious smile was actually the Baron himself, but the human skin mask he used was changed to Lakha. The most obvious proof is that the incisors of Lakha are intact at this time, but the fact is that the incisors of Lakha were chiseled out by the baron in punishment...
Although the pace of the film is slow, there is a tightness in the slowness. Doubts that keep appearing will make you watch it patiently... The title car is driving on the mountain road in the Alps, and the scenery of the aerial photography is exquisite, which makes people fascinated by the Alps...
In fact, you understand this film as another version of " Mulholland Drive" is not a must, anyway, the director and screenwriter are just pretending to be mysterious, deliberately attracting the audience's attention with a confusing atmosphere of suspense...
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