POINT OF TERROR

Lounge singer Tony Trelos is approached by a buxom blonde woman on a beach one afternoon. Her name is Andrea Hilliard, and she is a wealthy woman whose crippled husband Martin owns a record label. That night, Andrea goes to watch Tony perform at his regular California oceanside club. She offers to cut him a record deal. Tony begins a sexual relationship with her, and begins ignoring Sally, a former flame of his. Unbeknownst to Tony, Andrea murdered Martin's former wife in their home after having begun an affair with him nine years before.

One evening, Martin confronts Andrea, saying he witnessed her having sex with Tony in their swimming pool earlier that night. In a tussle, Andrea pushes Martin into the pool, and watches him drown. After his death, Martin's daughter, Helayne, arrives from Europe where she has been attending college. After the funeral, Tony is told by Andrea's alcoholic friend, Fran, that Martin's ex-wife was murdered by an unknown intruder, and that Helayne was sent to several boarding schools in Europe after Andrea and Martin married.

Tony seduces Helayne, which drives Andrea mad. One evening, Andrea and Tony get into an argument on a cliff near her home, and she attempts to murder him, but Tony throws her over the edge to the rocks below, killing her. Helayne witnesses the event, and the two embrace. Upon returning to the house, Tony is confronted by Sally, who shoots him dead. He then awakens screaming on the beach, where Andrea approaches him; all that has occurred has been a premonition.

Tony is shot dead by his ex-lover Sally, only to wake up on the beach and realize the entire sequence of events was a premonitory nightmare.

The film closes by revealing that the preceding events—a spiral of seduction, murder, and betrayal—were all experienced by Tony as a premonition. This classic exploitation twist reframes the narrative as both a cautionary vision and a cyclical fantasy, leaving viewers questioning the line between dream and impending fate. The nightmare structure connects the film’s melodramatic excess to Tony’s subconscious fears and desires, while also giving the story a lurid punchline true to its psychotronic roots.