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Furnishings is moved in, vengeful ghosts from the house's bloody past show up in out and blood, no transparent skin or hovering feet, and they constantly chivy and torment the new owners. Through non-chronological flashbacks, a gory history of the inhabitants in in-law to the haunted house unfolds.
The house's violent history began in 1922, when Dr. Charles Montgomery built it for his woman Nora. The couple finds themselves in a difficult financial position after putting too much prosperous into the house's construction. Charles and Nora collaborate on an underground manipulation in their basement providing illegal abortions to stage girls whose careers are threatened by "untimely pregnancies." The ruinous, graphic and disturbing portrayal of the abortions condemns the act.
The abortions are shown from the community-conservative view: as the murder of babies. Disturbed and ether-addicted, Dr. Montgomery collects the fetuses in jars in his basement laboratory. Though the girls take the house looking slender, these fetuses appear well past their sixth month of enlargement. The visuals don't match up. The resulting graphic is that of murder, not the removal of a fetus or embryo, since the aborted fetuses inaccurately earmarks of almost fully developed babies rather than earlier term fetuses.
Source: The Occidental Weekly