This is a surreal ghost story about a haunted house that eats schoolgirls. It's more of a quirky comedy than a horror movie. The director uses what seems to be every special effect possible at the time it was made, but makes them look intentionally fake. That, plus the seven overly-cheerful schoolgirls, give the movie the look and feel of a weird and silly children's TV show, but one that's not for children. We see each schoolgirl meet a gruesome fate, including being eaten by a piano, attacked by mattresses, eaten by a light fixture, and drowned in a torrent of blood that shoots out of a painting of a cat.

The newt scene is brief, but it is the first sign that there is something strange going on in the house, which we discover is haunted by the evil spirit of a woman who died there while waiting for her fiance to return from the war.

A schoolgirl named Gorgeous invites six other schoolgirls on summer vacation travel to her aunt's house in the county. They enter the house after being greeted by the aunt, an old woman in a wheelchair. The aunt has a white cat with glowing eyes that seems to be some kind of witch. When the girls come into the house, the old woman turns on a crystal chandelier. All of a sudden colorful lights flash from the chandelier crystals and a dart-shaped crystal falls to the floor. An athletic girl called Kung Fu tries to stop it but the crystal falls point first onto a salamander that just happens to be walking on the floor, impaling it to the floor. We see the salamander's tail wiggle back and forth as it is unable to move its body. Then we see the white cat fly throught the air under the chandelier. The cat walks up to the salamander and that's the last we see of the amphibian. One of the girls says that the cat is eating a lizard. The nickname of the girl who says that is "Professor," but she's obviously not a herpetology professor because the animal is a salamander, not a lizard.

I'm obviously not a herpetology professor either, because I don't know exactly what kind of salamander it is, but it appears to be a newt. The movie was made in Japan, where there are three endemic species of newts, including the Japanese fire belly newt, which is common in the pet trade, so that could be what it is.