厌倦了逼仄脏乱的小公寓，正值青春年少的美丽女孩冰通过网络找到一所宽敞阔气且租金极为便宜的大房子，事不宜迟，她连忙致电屋主预约时间，并叫上同公寓好友妮娜随她一同看房。虽然妮娜对该房第一印象不佳，却无法改变冰的决定。不久之后，满心欢喜的冰搬入新居，谁知从第一天开始便有怪事在身边发生。在此之后，种种诡异事件交替发生，甚至冰的意识也受到侵袭。担心好友的安危，妮娜赶来冰的身边。 只是恐怖事件并未就此告一段落，仿佛被诅咒了一般，美丽女孩落入充满玄幻和恐怖气息的死亡陷阱之中……
该片故事讲述一名变态杀手（克里斯托弗·阿波特 饰）计划在酒店招妓（米娅·华希科沃斯卡 饰），并将其谋杀。然而他计划却失败了。
某座美军废弃的地下工业基地，数年前因一系列恐怖事件而关闭。而今，无所畏惧的时尚男女在这里开启狂欢派对，纵情享乐之际全然不知危险将近。马特（Ross Thomas 饰）、米拉（Sofia Pernas 饰）、艾瑞克（Jeff D'Agostino 饰）、詹娜（Christine Evangelista 饰）、伊芙和斯托姆（Adrian R'Mante 饰）等六名好友在派对高潮和另一伙人发生矛盾，冲突过后，他们仓皇躲入一座地下设施内，结果却被对方反锁在里面。少顷曲终人散，马特他们遇见另外两个在此欢爱的男女。他们结伴寻找逃出去的路，谁知竟遭遇了恐怖嗜血的可怕生物。 黑暗寒冷的地下，魔鬼的盛宴拉开序幕……
万圣节前一天，五名狂欢节员工被绑架挟持到一个称为“肃杀世界”的孤立院子。在万圣节时，他们会被扔进一个名叫“31”的虐待狂的游戏中，他们将面对一群穿得像小丑一样的疯子。然而，小丑并不是唯一需要担心的，一个更宏大的邪教仪式和更残酷的阴谋将被唤醒......
一位邪恶的马戏团老板在几位高中生的小镇上演“鬼屋”，他们必须抗拒他的魔咒。
故事发生在1990年，美国一名汽车修理工约翰·格雷（大卫·丹席克 David Dencik 饰）因涉嫌猥亵自己的女儿安吉拉（艾玛·沃森 Emma Watson 饰）而遭到逮捕。负责调查此案的警官布鲁斯·肯纳（伊桑·霍克 Ethan Hawke 饰）对约翰展开问询，而在这一过程中约翰起先承认罪行，随后又突然失忆。为了应对这一突发状况，心理学教授肯尼斯·睿恩斯博士（大卫·休里斯 David Thewlis 饰）也介入调查之中。他们发现，约翰信奉崇拜魔鬼撒旦的黑宗教，甚至布鲁斯的搭档都有可能参与其中。布鲁斯和肯尼斯想方设法要打开嫌疑人和受害者的记忆闸门，让他们想起最不堪回首的一段往事…… 本片根据真实事件改编。
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...
