 Alyssa Hale is a teenager with a dual personality. Normally a quiet young lady with a gloomy personality, Alyssa has a dark side, a cruel and merciless man known as Mr. Bates who can possess her body at will. Alyssa s only protection against these unwelcome possessions is an amulet given to her by her father, the director of a major San Francisco hospital. Alyssa has just undergone extensive psychotherapy and is recuperating by visiting a lifelong friend of her father s, Philip Tate, and his children. Unbeknownst to Alyssa, Philip s family is haunted by the Maxwell Curse: a mysterious figure who loves to wear a devil s mask and slaughter his victims with a large butcher knife. This is the beginning of a nightmare journey.