 Adrienne visits the nearly 110 @-@ year @-@ old Malcolm Wyrmshadow ( Douglas Seale ) , who had been Carno 's apprentice as a young boy . Malcolm reveals that Carno met his demise after his last wife , Marie ( Traci Clauson ) discovered he was a murderer . Marie conspired with her lover , Gaston ( Jeff Rector ) , to kill Carno by sabotaging the equipment for his most infamous and dangerous escapology trick , in which Carno dons a burning hood and escapes from bonds on a throne equipped with an overhead pendulous axe . The sabotage leaves Carno horribly burned and disfigured , but he survives and viciously attacks Marie and Gaston . After killing Marie by beheading her with the same pendulous throne , Carno is killed by Gaston just before he succumbs to his own wounds . Malcolm tells Adrienne about a ritual that can eradicate the demon . 
