Her Private Hell

In an eerie, futuristic city engulfed by a mysterious mist, actress Elle returns home to the Tower Hotel. She meets her new co-star Hunter, a young influencer whose travel arrangements were disrupted by the fog. Brought to stay in Elle's family's suite, the naïve Hunter is enamored with the jaded Elle's opulent life. Elle has a strained relationship with her friend-turned-stepmother Dominique, who married her lecherous father, famed filmmaker Johnny Thunders.

The women have a fitting with sinister dressmakers Ms. S and Ms. T, who prick Elle with a pin as a sign of "good luck". Later, Johnny Thunders tells the women about the legend of "the Leatherman", a murderous spirit with diamond-encrusted gloves, who appears with the mist and can only be killed by cutting off his hands. Elle hopes the film she and her father are making will bring them closer together, but he soon departs, urging her to bury the hatchet with Dominique. Elle and Hunter witness the Leatherman murder a neighbor, ripping her chest open and throwing her out of a window.

They continue to shoot Johnny's science fiction film: Elle's character crash-lands her spaceship on a crystal planet, where she is betrayed by Dominique. Hunter stops the scene to tell them of her research into the Leatherman, perceived by some as the Devil, and "the Kingmakers", a pair of kitsune who serve as his guides. Johnny has left Elle a golden hatchet as a birthday gift, and she finds his forgotten leather jacket with a cigarette lighter belonging to Private K, an American G.I. once stationed in Japan.

Decades before, K believed the Leatherman was responsible for the disappearance of his daughter, hunting him for years. After attacking a yakuza boss and his men, K is flogged by the police as punishment. The Leatherman's kitsune, Ms. S and Ms. T, tell K that his daughter is still alive, and he must kill the Leatherman to free her. Ambushed by the yakuza, K kills them only to be drawn through a mirror into the Leatherman's ghostly, crystalline realm.

Celebrating Elle's birthday, Dominique brings her and Hunter to party with Johnny's rival, Nico. Dominique confides in Elle that she has slept with Nico, part of the understanding she and Johnny have about their marriage. She tries to repair her friendship with Elle, who kisses her, but Dominique gently turns her down, leading Elle to seduce Nico instead. Trapped in the other realm, K watches helplessly as Hunter is killed by the Leatherman.

Returning to the hotel, Elle spitefully forces her underwear into the sleeping Dominique's mouth. A vicious argument ensues, and an increasingly unhinged Elle attacks Dominique with the hatchet. The Leatherman appears, killing Dominique and pursuing Elle into the crystal realm. There, K confronts the Leatherman and is nearly defeated, but Elle chops off the Leatherman's hands with her hatchet. The evil spirit vanishes, and K is reunited with his daughter, while the kitsune offer the Leatherman's gloves to Elle with the chance to "find what [she] has lost".