20世纪七十年代，罗杰（朗·里维斯顿 Ron Livingston 饰）与卡罗琳（莉莉·泰勒 Lili Taylor 饰）两夫妇带着他们五个可爱美丽的女儿，搬到了位于罗德岛哈瑞斯维尔的一幢旧宅居住。房屋虽然古旧沧桑，历史悠久，但是却让佩隆一家体会到回归田园的快乐与喜悦。谁知好景不长，接二连三的怪异事件相继出现，令女孩们惊声尖叫，也让佩隆夫妇的神经绷到极点。为此，他们辗转找到当时最负盛名的沃伦夫妇。 　　丈夫埃德（帕特里克·威尔森 Patrick Wilson 饰）是天主教会唯一认可的驱魔师，妻子洛琳（维拉·法米加 Vera Farmiga 饰）则拥有窥见灵体的能力。他们不费吹灰之力便确定这座阴气十足的大房子的症结所在，而为了征得教会除灵的许可，他们必须深入期间搜集恶灵存在的证据……In 1971, Carolyn and Roger Perron move their family into a dilapidated Rhode Island farm house and soon strange things start happening around it with escalating nightmarish terror. In desperation, Carolyn contacts the noted paranormal investigators, Ed and Lorraine Warren, to examine the house. What the Warrens discover is a whole area steeped in a satanic haunting that is now targeting the Perron family wherever they go. To stop this evil, the Warrens will have to call upon all their skills and spiritual strength to defeat this spectral menace at its source that threatens to destroy everyone involved.