
The movie opens with a scene from the point-of-view of a psychotic killer in a night-dress, killing first their mother and then father with a hammer in the middle of a stormy night. The events are blurred and warped as if the killer is deranged or drugged.
Four years later, a newly divorced woman, Sarah (Elisabeth Shue), and her daughter Elissa (Jennifer Lawrence) find the house of their dreams in a small upscale town. But when startling events...