When an auto accident robs Chris Smith (Robert Webber) of his memory, his only link to the past is a torn photo of a beautiful woman. Tracking down the photographer, he discovers the model was killed six months earlier, stabbed to death in her shower. But when he's repeatedly awakened by a woman's screams and later finds her dead body in his bathroom, the question frighteningly arises: is Chris a killer gone insane or a pawn in a well-planned murder?

Stylishly directed by Academy Award-winning cinematographer Freddie Francis from an original screenplay by the legendary Jimmy Sangster, Hysteria is Hammer Studios meets Hitchcock on a suspenseful high wire!

A psychological thriller about a man suffering from amnesia after being involved in a car accident in which another man is killed. After being released from the hospital, the amnesia victim is provided with an elegant penthouse by a mysterious benefactor, but his mental state becomes progressively worse as a number of strange events occur.