詹妮弗·杰森·李饰演的单身母亲，带着两个女儿，以及因为一场事故身受重伤，如今躺在床上不省人事的儿子（卡梅隆·莫纳汉），搬进了这栋“非常邪”的房子。恐怖的事情也随之开始，屋中的恶灵似乎盘踞到了昏迷的儿子体内，他忽然苏醒，成了恶鬼用来杀人的工具。

这个故事发生在18世纪的俄国。因宗教问题修道士Lavr被伊丽莎白殿下从圣彼得堡流放到院位于遥远的山区斯帕斯基修道院，而Lavr心里却蕴藏着神秘的古代知识。环绕着修道院的陆地是臭名昭著的。 当提到自从远古时代就流传的令人恐怖的邪灵传说以及在黑暗中寄居的生物地区的时候人们的声音都会变得低沉。几年后殿下决定把修道士召回来。因为她已经好久没有听到他的消息了，她派遣她的代子Andrey去寻找Lavr,并把他带到宫廷。Andrey知道他所去之地的可怕传说。但是，作为一个年轻人和一个无忧无虑贵族的儿子，只把那些传说当做童话故事而置之不理。Andrey的仆人，非常恐惧地了解到他陪同主人要去的地方，并且把这次旅行，准备的像是打仗。过了几周后当Andrey一行人到达目的地的时候，他们发现修道院的广场由堡垒环绕着，并由一群闷闷不乐，阴郁的人保卫着。修道院看起来更像一座堡垒。修道士Lavr是和邪恶军队对抗中唯一的生存者。那天晚上日落的时候，一个冷血的嚎叫声响彻整个山谷...

　　瑞秋（泰莉莎·帕尔墨 Teresa Palmer 饰）和安东尼（史蒂芬·克里 Steven Cree 饰）本来拥有一个幸福的家庭，两人共同抚养着上天恩赐给他们的一对可爱的双胞胎，一家人生活在平和与其乐融融的气氛之中。哪知道，一场突如其来的灾难在迅雷不及掩耳之际袭击了这个家庭，双胞胎中的哥哥不幸丧生，剩下的人则要体味无穷无尽的痛苦。
　　为了摆脱阴暗的过去，尽快走进新的生活，瑞秋和安东尼决定举家迁往宁江的乡村小镇，在那里修复这个支离破碎的家庭，谁知道没过多久，种种异象便发生在了幸存的弟弟艾略特（Tristan Ruggeri 饰）身上，艾略特告诉父母，死去的哥哥并没有离开，而是一直纠缠和困扰着他。

　　The nightmare was about a demonic possession. A long time ago, there was an evil in a small town and it was jealous of the girl and would never let her go, since the devil loved the girl. One night, the evil raped the girl and she became pregnant. After months the girl could not hide her baby, her father figured her secret out and clapped the girl in irons and locked her room door. But the evil put the gun to her father' temple and saved the girl. The father had a stroke and had been sleeping on the bed for three months and died. Time went on and the girl brought a child into the world. Naturally, people who were living in the village heard the story and they did not want to see neither the girl nor the baby since when the baby was born, plants dried in the field, fishes lost in the lake and people had prayed to the god for rain, but nothing changed in the village. People got so angry, dug a hole in front of the fountain, put her into the hole and threw stones at her face. The girl died soon after. The evil went off the deep end, took a revenge of the village and killed everyone except two sisters because the evil wanted them to take care of its baby...

安巴尔是一名追寻美国梦的移民，但在被迫住进一栋寄宿公寓后，她发现自己陷入了一场无法逃脱的噩梦。

　　当一位孤独的真正犯罪迷遇到她最喜欢的播客主持人时，浪漫擦出了火花，但事情很快变得奇怪，因为他对她的迷恋变成了痴迷，而他最新的剧集似乎围绕着她最终的谋杀展开。