Plot SynopsisThe film opens with a quick introduction to some of he main characters - Michael O""Leary (Humphrey Bogart in an extraneous role), the family""s Irish horse trainer and stable man, calls on he phone early in the morning from the feed room/stable to the country mansion of the Trahernes, a wealthy Long Island family.In a late-night meeting between Nicholson and his officers, attended also by Shears and Clipton, the men contemplate the odds of successful escape and survival.The additional voice-over of his wife""s point-of-view provides even further insight into the all-encompassing culture and lure of life within the ""family.With a production budget of approximately $2.5 million, and box-office gross revenues of $25.5 million (domestic).Gorier and more violent (characteristic of splatter films rather than slasher films, with lots of random murders), and with more nudity, than the first film.