 While the local townspeople believe all Carno 's wives died of natural causes or accidentally , Adrienne learns through a series of visions that he murdered them in grotesque distortions of their personalities . <unk> ( Christine Armond ) , who avoided Zoltan 's abuse by <unk> herself in her greenhouse , is stabbed with gardening tools and suffocated with mulch . Victoria ( Holley Chant ) , an alcoholic , is killed when Zoltan impales her eye with a wine bottle during an argument . An overly talkative third wife , Leonora ( Dana Moody ) , has her mouth gagged and her neck contorted in a torture device . Finally , the food @-@ loving Regina ( Wanda Smith ) is force @-@ fed animal entrails through a funnel until she chokes to death . Harriet performs a séance for Adrienne , revealing in the form of a green ectoplasm the spirit of Carno before he had been possessed . He reveals that the previously contained evil spirit has been released , and urges Adrienne to trap it once again . 
