本片由阿瑟·卢宾  执导,邀请演员斯图尔特·格兰杰  简·西蒙斯  比尔·特拉弗斯  贝琳达·李  罗纳德·斯夸尔  出演的恐怖片类型电影，讲述To his Victorian London friends, Stephen Lowry is a heartbroken widower. Only his housemaid Lily knows that far from dying of gastroenteritis his wife was slowly poisoned by her husband - information she is happy to use to improve her position in the household and to make sure she stays close to Stephen. As his own prospects improve with a business partnership and a romance more of his own class, Stephen decides that Lily must go. Unfortunately for him, his first attempt gives her even more of a hold over him.