Charles Dexter Ward's wife enlists the help of a private detective to find out what her husband is up to in a remote cabin owned by his family for centuries. Thehusband is a chemical engineer| and the smells from his experiments (and the delivery of what appear to be human remains at all hours) are beginning to arouse theattention of neighbors and local law enforcement officials. When the detective and wife find a diary of the husband's ancestor from 1771| and reports of gruesomemurders in the area begin to surface| they begin to suspect that some very unnatural experiments are being conducted in the old house. Based on an H.P. Lovecraft
總統(tǒng)的女兒勞拉（克斯汀·貝爾 Kristen Bell 飾）遭人綁架，擁有豐辦案經(jīng)驗(yàn)的斯科特警（方·基默 Val Kilmer 飾）成為了調(diào)查案件的主要責(zé)人，與此同時(shí)，警和政府各部門亦派出深成員涉入案件，其甚至包括了總統(tǒng)的顧。在巨大的壓力之下斯科特展開了艱難的證行動(dòng)，在此過程中一個(gè)販賣婦女的犯罪體漸漸浮出水面，不如此，種種跡象表明知名政客斯托達(dá)德（廉姆·H·梅西 William H. Macy 飾）亦被牽連其中，這并不是一宗純的綁架案。就在斯特離真相越來越近之，媒體忽然宣布了勞已經(jīng)死亡的消息，盡之后案件草草收尾，斯科特依然堅(jiān)信，勞依然活著。?豆?
