Beauty can be deadly...

Rebecka Fairbanks (Elizabeth Hurley) is a beautiful but temperamental movie star, who is struggling to find her next hit picture. She accepts the part of the nineteenth century serial killer Belle Gunness and commits herself to the role with an almost obsessive passion.

As filming gets underway, she begins adopting more and more of Belle's sinister mannerisms. Soon, people start disappearing from the set and are later found dead. The murders share a startling similarity to the actual killings committed by Belle Gunness over a hundred years ago...