A refreshing if not entirely successful turn on the tropes of recent haunted house films with a surprisingly meaty role for Cathy Moriarty (WHITE OF THE EYE) in what could have been a slumming guest appearance and an ending that strives (perhaps overreaches) for emotional poignancy. After his wife Cecile (co-director Deborah Twiss) suffers a miscarriage three months into her third pregnancy, Brooklyn therapist Jonathan (Eric Roberts, RUNAWAY TRAIN) decides a change would be good for the family - daughter Ariel (Sydney McCann) suffers from night terrors and son Morgan (Matthew McCann) is a smartass backtalker - and takes on the country practice of elderly Dr. Willy (Robert Vaughn, RIVER OF DEATH) in upstate New York. When their car mysteriously breaks down along a secluded road, the family stumbles upon the old Brickford house inhabited by Alice (Moriarty) who unhappily looks after her abusive, bedridden mother Sophia (Pat Patterson). When they mention that they are house-hunting, Alice offers to rent the house to them while she finds something smaller and more affordable for herself and her mother. It is not long before the family experience strange things in the house: Ariel's night terrors worsen and she starts talking to an old doll she finds on the grounds, Morgan is terrified by something in the basement while looking for his errant pet bunny, Cecile is menaced by a specter that might be the "bad boy" who has terrorized Ariel in her dreams even before they left Brooklyn while also experienced a renewed lust for her her husband that she knows is somehow unnatural or pathological, and even Jonathan starts hearing voices and crying children in the night. Away from the house with her mother slipping away into catatonia, Alice is also still haunted by whatever lurks in the house, and the psychically-sensitive Father Thomas (James McCaffrey, RESCUE ME) is convinced that Alice knows more than she is letting on about the cause of the haunting.