Night Has a Thousand Desires 1984

With her business partner and lover, The Great Fabian, Antonio Mayans, and The Great Irina, Lina Romay, perform acts of telepathy as nightclub entertainers, offering glimpses into thoughts and memories through mind-reading and suggestion. The show thrives on mood, style, and a hint of danger, drawing crowds who crave something more than ordinary spectacle, and the duo’s bond adds a charged, intimate layer to every routine.

During a routine, a man in the audience catches Fabian’s attention and passes a note to Irina. She reads it with her powers, and a warning seems to slip from the page:

You have a few hours to live

Fabian dismisses the moment as a prank, while Irina grows uneasy and frightened, retreating to her hotel room to puzzle over the message and its possible meaning.

That night, Irina dreams of a sexual encounter with the mysterious man and his two female friends, until a voice uttering a strange incantation interrupts the scene. On waking, she leaves the hotel and enters a strange beach house where a woman named Lorna Carmen Carrión greets her with a kiss. Unknown to Irina, Fabian is also present. The two plot to use Irina as a puppet to purge their enemies, turning her gifts into tools of manipulation and control.

Under their control, Irina first stabs a nightclub pianist to death, the act carried out with a cold, practiced precision. The next day Fabian consoles her and insists the dream sequence was nothing but a fabrication to manipulate her, further blurring the line between reality and illusion.

The following day, Irina attends a party with the man who gave her the note. The crowd is riding high on mood-altering substances, and the conspirators push Irina toward violence until she kills the man and his two female friends. Fabian then arranges a visit to Dr. Harmon, the psychiatrist (Jesús Franco) who questions her about the confusion between dreams and waking life, probing the fragile boundary she teeters on.

Shortly after, Irina enacts another murder in a hotel room, this time with a young man she meets there. She regains consciousness to find a stained knife and blood on her hands and returns to the beach house, where the dreamlike strings of manipulation tighten around her, leaving a trail of consequences that echo through the room above the neon-lit club.