A postal worker, Marlene, is delivering a package to the Winchester House. She leaves the package with the current caretaker, Jessica, who warns the postal worker to leave immediately. Later, Jessica is seen performing a ritual within a magic circle when a ghostly wind catches her and throws her out of a window into a tree, killing her.
Note: The story is explained here in its chronological order, rather than the way it unfolds in the film. Trevor and Faith are a happy couple who decide to buy a home together. After purchasing their new house, Trevor is cleaning the attic and discovers a chest.
An aspiring documentarian and two conservationists venture into the Australian outback to record the animals displaced by bushfires, hoping to preserve the forests, whereupon they discover a terrifying new sub-species descended from the supposedly extinct Thylacoleo carnifex.
When unspeakable evil falls on a quiet river town, sheriff Logan (Kurt Angle) is thrust into a chilling nightmare of death and mayhem. He is confronted with a series of horrific murders, each more vicious than the last, and soon learns of the community's seedy past and the evil that has risen from purgatory to exact revenge on the town.
Raina (Schneider) tells her best friend, Nichola, that she and her fiance Matt (Guiney) have been arguing. Nichola — who happens to be living in a room of the couple's beach house — assures her that it's merely "pre-wedding jitters," and voices a recurring line: "Your happily ever after is just around the corner." The two return home, and it's not long before Matt and Raina run into yet another argument, resulting in Matt storming from the house in anger. Later that night, Raina awakens and begins to search the house for Matt.
Told in the style of a documentary, the story focuses on Graham, a once popular vlogger whose viewership has been steadily declining. He manages to gain a surge in popularity after capturing evidence of the supernatural during one of his livestreams and joins together with an online ghost hunter named Steve to capitalize on his revived viewership. This gains the attention of a professional journalist and debunker, Alice, who is able to not only show that the initial haunting was fake but also provide video of Graham and Steve admitting that this and all of the subsequent videos were false.
Hearing that her friend Bernard Cutler has become a Catholic priest, Jenny Welch attends church to seek him out but finds that the man taking confession is not Bernard, but the elderly Father Xavier Meldrum. She quickly leaves, but not before telling Meldrum that her on-off boyfriend Terry Wyatt recently pressured her into having an abortion. Outwardly a kind-hearted counsellor of troubled youth, Meldrum is in fact a fervent believer in "divine justice" who freely resorts to emotional abuse in his obsessive efforts to redeem those he views as sinners.
Two rival brothers are looking for the magic ring of the Nibelungen, a mystical jewel that confers all power to the one who possesses it. The first, Karl, is an archaeologist who wishes to give it to an archaeological institute; the second, Franz, is a materialist who wants to appropriate it to be rich and powerful. Franz, after having read Karl's research, travels to the Carpathian Mountains in Transylvania, to the ancient castle of Count Dracula.
Goshen, Indiana is a small farm town that doesn't seem to offer much to its teenagers. High school seniors Sarah (Anna Kendrick) and Jillian (Tania Raymonde) have been best friends for so long that they can't remember when their friendship started. Growing up in Goshen, the two couldn't be more different.
Deep in the Latin American jungles, plantation manager Barney Chavez kills his elderly employer, who is married to the beautiful Dina Van Gelder. Old native witch Al-Long witnesses the murder and places a curse on Barney, who transforms into a rampaging gorilla-like beast each night. Superstitious police commissioner Taro investigates the plantation owner's death and a rash of strange animal killings.
A man on the streets sees women as monsters through hallucinations and commits suicide on top of a building. Marcus (Kristopher Shepard) is a paramedic who one night on the job becomes emotionally attached to a well-regarded woman named Emma Carillo (Rachel Emmers), a dying patient with five stab wounds. He attempts to help save her life, but she dies at the Mercy Hospital, as a near-death patient, Caroline Kuntz (JJ Neward), awakes, kills two people and leaves.
Wendy, a part-time summer employee at a mountainous state park, takes on a rough trail assignment at the end of the season, trying to prove to her friends that she's capable enough to do the job. When she takes a wrong turn and ends up deep in the backcountry, she stumbles upon a potential crime scene. Stuck with no communication after losing her radio and with orders to guard the site, Wendy must fight the urge to run.
On the day of Alice Wentworth's wedding, mad scientist Dr. Lorenz sends the young bride an unusual orchid, the scent of which places the young woman in a state of suspended animation resembling death. He then spirits her body away to the basement laboratory of his isolated mansion and extracts glandular fluid from behind her ears to inject into his vain and aged wife in order to renew her youth and beauty, as well as to save her from a slow and painful death.
An old Native American Shaman Hawk trains his skeptical grandson Mike to take over for him as the new tribal “Medicine Man” of his small village. Along the way, they battle Hawk's enemies and their black magic.
The film takes place over six chapters. Chapter 1: Her Madame leaves Darling alone as the new caretaker of an old home in New York City. Before leaving, Madame warns that the previous caretaker threw herself off the balcony.
Teenage friends Julie, Jason, Dean, Whitney, and Tobe are working as summer camp counselors at Camp Placid Pines. Their boss Patrick introduces them to the other counselors Drew, Brad, Jamie and Doug. The groundskeeper, Henry, warns Julie that there is something dangerous in the woods, but Patrick dismisses him as crazy.
An unidentified stalker records video of married couple James and Amy Deakin as they hide their spare key outside their home. When the couple leaves to go jogging, he uses the key to enter their home and set up hidden security cameras in each room. He also makes subtle changes, such as setting their alarm to go off earlier and leaving a mix CD in their car.
The Resurreccion family's ancestral mansion is believed to have a portal to the other world. Every quarter of a century, it must be opened by a chosen member of the clan, known as "The One", to enable stranded ghosts to cross over to the afterlife. With no surviving clan member opening the portal in the past 100 years, ghosts have overcrowded the now-abandoned mansion and are in danger of becoming cockroaches unless they pass over.
Arnold Masters is a young man serving time in an institution for the criminally insane for a crime he did not commit. Arnold reveals his situation to a fellow inmate: His mother was very sick, and needed an operation to remove a tumor. But due to Arnold's mother having no insurance, the doctor did not perform the operation.
In 1860, Edward Styles is accused of being the notorious Haymarket Strangler, who brutally killed five women by partially strangling them with one hand before stabbing them to death. Styles, who lacks the use of one arm, is tried and executed for these crimes. As his coffin is nailed shut, an unknown onlooker slips a knife into it.
Two high school opposites, stoner Jake Stephens and popular cheerleader Amanda Blake, become infected with a virus that turns them into zombie-like cannibals. They travel across the country looking for a cure. Cass, a teenage telepath, and her partner Tom work for a government agency charged with hunting and killing the infected.