In 1840, a samurai comes home to find his wife in bed with another man, so he kills them both and then himself. Flash-forward to the present day, and an American family of three moves into this since-abandoned house and starts to experience incidents of haunting and possession.
为了静下心来研究学问,老实木讷的数学家大卫•萨莫(Dustin Hoffman 达斯汀•霍夫曼 饰)协同妻子艾米(Susan George 苏珊•乔治 饰)回到位于英国乡村的老房子。