trevor blackburn ( andras jones ) be an amnesiac told by his psychiatric doctor and brain specialist dr. ek ( jeffrey comb as eccentric a ever ) that he be an unhinged and hard to handle criminal who be behind the murder of his lover faith ( beth bates ) . ek send him to the house of love and supposedly a mental recuperation center for others with insanity issue . ek wish for trevor to regain his buried memory and place his confounding image into their proper context . what trevor doesn not know be that ek have cameras throughout the house and set up to study him . he have also plant actor in the house to pose a mental patient so to increase trevor mental collapse . what sad be that trevor be really nothing more than a lab animal for ek experimentation . tamper with his mind until he snap . what ek be really after be a book of magick for which trevor only know it whereabouts . we also get a peek inside the madness within trevor mind where we see weird and often homicidal and image . we get vision of a reoccuring dream travis have of an attic with a trunk . that trunk symbolically represent his mind . inside it be what have be lock away from him . the mystery of that book be really at the heart of this crazy little movie . call it what you want . wacky . quirky . colorful . dizzying . director jeremy kasten keep the viewer on edge so we can experience the same hysteria like trevor . the film even offer up the idea that faith be have come to life within trevor mind to get that book use someone in the house of love a a host to kill him . supposedly in that magick book be a key to immortality and but trevor and faith have to die together . but and youre never quite sure what be go on which be either part of the fun or agony depend on how much the viewer like be pull on the tail . lot of b actor here like comb a the doctor and ted raimi a a writer who bar witness to comb madness and becomes threaten by him and seth green a loony douglas who become a possible ally to trevor . the film be really a visual marvel on such a low budget and a credit to imaginative filmmaker who really want to mind screw you .