It is, of course, a dark and stormy night. And there is, naturally, something unnameably spooky about the New York City brownstone into which the edgy, newly divorced Meg Altman (Jodie Foster) and her daughter Sarah (Kristen Stewart) have just moved. They have scarcely hit the sack when, sure enough, intruders arrive, squabbling among themselves with menacing fractiousness.
One of them, Junior (Jared Leto), a relative of the eccentric former owner, knows that millions of dollars are still hidden in the house. His nasty surprise is that the house is occupied; he thought the house was still being held in...