Wanting to escape city life for the countryside, New Yorkers Cooper Tilson (Quaid), his wife Leah (Stone) and their two children move to a dilapidated old mansion still filled with the possessions of their last 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 on a spine-tingling look for clues to the estate's dark and lurid History