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