Like a plot from a horror movie, the thing that is supposed to make people healthy instead sickens and kills them.

原本可以使人健康的东西却使人患病甚至导致死亡，这类似恐怖电影中的情节。

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Though planning to make a love story based on their own romantic tribulations, they switch to a horror movie after one of the women recounts a nightmare she had and, suddenly, real-life horrors begin to impinge on their idyll.

NEWYORKER: Baghead