Lucio Fulci, the maestro of Italian horror, plays... Lucio Fulci, a renowned horror film director. His corpus of work has begun to affect his mental health, and he is haunted by the nightmarish set-pieces he dreamt up during his career. His doctor, Egon Swharz, employs a hypnotized Fulci as a proxy to act out his own deranged fantasies in an attempt to destroy the master's reputation for good.