A tea-totaling family man descends into a life of despair and horror when he is introduced to the demon rum in this classic film. As the man succumbs to the sins of alcohol, you are shown how he becomes a shell of his former self and how his family suffers for it. It will take a major intervention for the man to face up to the imagined evil of the drink and the literal representation of it, in the form of the loathsome bartender Slade.