A chic, good-looking, suitably 1970s couple arrives at an extravagant, deserted seaside hotel after eloping. Stefan is wealthy and happily English, with a hidden streak of sadism; Valerie is intelligent but of inferior (Swedish) blood. To keep her with him at the eerie hotel he lies constantly about his relationship with his mother and his plans to tell her of their marriage. Two fresh guests arrive; Hungarian countess Elizabeth Bathory and her voluptuous protected Ilona. As the bodies of beautiful women drained of their blood start showing up around the city, a wary detective lurks around the hotel taunting his only suspect, the Countess.