A family find themselves terrorized by their eight-year-old son's imaginary friend.

　　女孩杰茜与女友吉姆在毕业晚会后，携弟弟马尔斯找男友洛根一起去一俱乐部狂欢。狂欢中吉姆拿着杰茜的手机突然失踪了，通过手机GPS定位，她们三人找到了变态囚禁狂爱德华家。糟糕的是，吉姆是爱德华的亲妹妹，她们落入了精心设计的圈套中……

大卫（詹姆斯·麦斯登 James Marsden 饰）是一位小有名气的剧作家，为了能有更好的创作环境，大卫携爱妻艾米（凯特·波茨沃斯 Kate Bosworth 饰）回到了风景宜人的南方老家。老家清新的空气和闲散的生活让两个疲惫的城市人感到十分的新奇，而在这靓丽的风景之下，原住民们对这对初来乍到的夫妻却并不能算得上友好。　　秉着息事宁人的态度，大卫对来自外界的种种歧视选择了默默忍受，甚至在妻子被一名当地的建筑工人设计强暴之后，他也只是希望能够大事化小小事化了。可是，大卫的一味忍让换来的却是变本加厉的欺负，当一群“野蛮人”试图闯入他家时，曾经懦弱的大卫选择了拿起武器，为了保卫自己最后的家园而战。

Eugénie是生活在19世纪一位光芒四射充满热情的姑娘。她有一种特殊的天赋：听得到看得见过世的人。当她的家人发现这个秘密以后，她就被爸爸和兄弟送到神经病诊所萨尔佩特里尔医院，这让她完全没有可能逃脱她的命运了。这个诊所是由著名的Charcot教授管理，他是著名的神经学专家和精神病专家先锋，收容被诊断为歇斯底里、疯狂和癫痫以及所有类型的躯体和精神障碍女病人。Eugénie接下来的道路将会遇到Geneviève，神经科女护士，这位护士的生活在她眼前流逝，可她去从未真正活过。她们的相遇将会改变她们的命运。她们准备着Charcot教授每年在诊所举行的著名《疯美人舞会》。

811 AD, a family, isolated in their home, deep in the woods a few days travel from Birka. They are poor. The hunting and fishing has been bad for some time, and the father, Joar, takes the desperate measure of going on a Viking raid. Joar does not return for a long time, and the family starts to fear he never will. Runa, the oldest daughter, takes over her fathers chores in his absence. She misses him dearly and nourishes a tender hope that he, once again, will return to them. But in her heart, somehow she knows, that the suffering of the family has just begun. There is something in the air, something in the water, the wind and in the soil. Runa is becoming aware of something vile, something dangerous out in the forest. One day when she is out hunting, she finds a bleeding man, a warrior, almost unconscious. She brings him inside and the family tend to his wounds. As he heals, she realizes he is sent to protect the family from an approaching evil. And he brings news of her father.