- Extended version of an episode of the series The Sixth Sense. Joan Crawford plays a woman who stumbles upon a group of ESP enthusiasts who decide to use their abilities to scare her to death.
- Joan Fairchild is a woman traveling along a dark rural road when she accidentally runs her car off the road. She immediately has an hallucinatory vision of a drowning woman in a lake, and seeks refuge in a large house nearby. Inside the house are a group of young people interested in experimenting with the occult and ESP. They offer her shelter for the night, but they hardly have her best interests in mind: under the guidance of their sinister leader, they intend to use their psychic abilities to telepathically send Joan distressing images of her deceased daughter--images that they hope will actually frighten Joan to death.—acidxian
- Joan Fairchild (Joan Crawford) is driving along a dark rural wooded roadway when she swerves to avoid hitting a dog. Her car runs off the road and becomes stuck, so she's forced to leave the car and seek help. While walking through the woods, she has a strange vision of a woman floating in the water. She becomes frightened and runs from the area, stumbling upon a large foreboding house nearby. Joan suffers an asthma attack just before knocking on the door.
The house is occupied by several young people. Carrie (Martine Bartlett) opens the door and summons her friends Jason (Scott Hylands), Paul (David Ladd), and Karen (Lenore Kasdorf). They calm Joan with a drink and she tells them what happened, including the strange apparition she saw in the woods. She also explains that she has asthma and needs her inhaler to get over her attacks.
Carrie invites Joan to stay for the evening, since her car is stuck in a ditch. They convince Joan that no taxi or tow service will come to help her this late, so she agrees to stay. While Joan is settling into the room Carrie prepares for her, she tells Carrie that her daughter, Diana (Anne Lockhart), died in a boating accident, revealing the significance of the vision she had of the woman in the water. Paul retrieves Joan's suitcase from the trunk of her car, but while they have her purse, Jason takes it into a dining room, where he and Karen rifle through it. Paul objects, but Jason silences him. They find a small portrait of Diana that Joan keeps in her handbag.
When Carrie leaves Joan in her room, Joan is startled to see the woman from her vision enter and collect a sweater. She introduces herself as Lori (Kelly Jean Peters), then quickly leaves, ignoring Joan's attempt to talk further. Soon after, Joan is terrified by the ghostly image of Diana. Diana seems to float toward her just like the vision in the woods, and she speaks to Joan, blaming Joan for her death.
Joan faints and the others find her like that, and once again they calm her down. Jason asks Joan if she believes in the paranormal, particularly ESP, and Joan says she doesn't really know what to believe about the subject. While they are talking, Lori enters the room and Jason explains that Lori is deaf. Suddenly Joan realizes why Lori didn't answer her before. Joan feels as if she should warn Lori that she saw an image of her drowning, but Jason advises against it because Lori is terrified of the water.
When Joan returns to her room, she stops by Lori's room and warns her anyway of her vision. Jason interrupts and angrily sends Joan away, then lashes out at Lori, slapping her across the face and telling her not to talk to Joan.
Jason and the others congregate. Their psychic experiments are actually associated with sending mental images to an unsuspecting subject; they had been attempting to send Lori an image of herself drowning, but it was intercepted by Joan. They now realize they got through to her, so they plan on seeing just how far they can take it. Paul is against the idea, but Jason bullies him into going along with it.
The cycle repeats itself again; the psychics send an apparition of Diana to Joan, and Joan has a panic attack. This time she steps on her inhaler, destroying it, and passes out on her bed. When she wakes up, Jason tries to force Joan to take a sedative in a glass of water, but she throws it on the floor. Aware that Joan has attempted to phone for help, Jason also removes the telephone from her room and locks her in. Back downstairs, Carrie reminds the others of Joan's asthma, but Jason's intentions have turned sinister. He intends to frighten Joan to death with the visions. The girls go along with it, but Paul resists. Jason bullies him into doing it anyway. They are unaware that Lori has been spying on them through the doorway; her ability to read lips informs her of their intentions, and she tries to warn Joan. She speaks to Joan through the locked door, telling her she's going to take the boat across the lake to get help. Joan immediately realizes the connection; the vision she saw of Lori drowning could now become reality. Since Lori is deaf, Joan cannot warn her, so she tries writing it on a slip of paper and slipping it under the door. But Lori is gone. Jason finds the slip of paper and goes after her, cornering her in the boat and setting it adrift after punching a hole in the bottom of it, knowing that Lori cannot swim. Lori begins to panic, her fear of the water taking over as she drifts from shore.
When Jason returns to the house, they send another vision of Diana to Joan, and this time she doesn't have her inhaler. Instead, she goes into the bathroom and uses steam to get past her asthma attack. The psychics come to check on her and see if they've succeeded, but Joan sneaks back out into the hall and locks them in, rushing outside to try and help Lori. Due to the position of the boat, she cannot make eye contact with Lori to remind her of the life jacket stored under the boat's bench. Jason and Paul break open the bedroom door and they all rush outside to find her. Joan slips back inside to use the phone, but Carrie spots her and they chase her inside. Joan hides behind a curtain , but Jason announces that when he finds her, he's going to kill her. Jason, Carrie, and Karen go to look for her in the kitchen while Paul stays behind and sees Joan emerge from her hiding place. Paul, who never wanted to hurt Joan in the first place, lets her go upstairs to call the police. Jason returns and realizes what has happened, but Paul fights with him to stop him from following Joan upstairs, eventually hurling him over the banister, where he falls to the first floor below.
In the meantime, Joan uses her undiscovered psychic talent to send an image of the life jacket to Lori. Lori receives the vision and saves herself by putting on the life jacket. The authorities come and take Jason, Carrie, and Karen away. Paul remains and apologizes to Joan, who forgives him for being part of the scheme.
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