In this film from horror master Mario Bava (who also directed Black Sunday), Peggy (Mary Arden) has a struggle with a masked killer over a diary with incriminating information in it. She ends up blindfolded and tied to a chair next to a stove. The killer removes her blindfold and when she insists that she burned the diary, he decides to torture her. He forces her hand onto the red-hot stove until smoke starts to pour off it, then pushes her entire face into it, killing her. The actress confirms that additional footage was filmed of her face being pulled off the stove, ruined and smoking, which was cut from the film because it was too strong for 1960s audiences.
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