Trauma

Dario Argento's first feature length American project, shot on location in Minneapolis, "Trauma" surrounds the lasting effects of trauma on the psyches of family members. Escaping from a psychiatric hospital, a young anorexic woman Aura (Asia Argento) finds shelter in the home of a young man David Parsons (Rydell). When Aura is caught and brought back into the hospital, a string of murders begins to befall the past and present workers of the hospital. Dubbed the "Head Hunter slayings," this serial killer beheads each of his victims with a homemade garrote device, the "noose-o-matic," on rainy days. After Aura's mother (Piper Laurie) and father fall victim, she joins with David to discover the horrible family secret behind the killings.