Wanting to escape city life for the countryside, New Yorkers Cooper Tilson
(Quaid), his wife Leah (Stone) and their two children move into a dilatpidated
old mansion still filled with the possessions of the previous family. Turning it
into their dream house soon becomes a living nightmare when the previous
owner (Dorff) shows up, and a series of terrifying incidents lead them on a
spine-tingling search for clues to the estate's dark and lurid past...