The House: Lush and deceptively tranquil, with its pristine beaches and
blossoming vegetation, the island basks in splendid isolation off the
South Carolina coast. Here, where sudden storms unleash the murderous
rage of wind and sea, stands the Devereaux mansion, a once-great
plantation house now crumbling amid ancient oaks dripping with Spanish
moss. Here, Marguerite Devereaux, fifty and childless, has cast off her
dreams to care for her aged, demanding mother.
The Family: Now, for the first time in twenty years, Kevin Devereaux has
returned home to this secluded place with his wife and two children.
They have come to visit Kevin's mother - hated, frightening Mother, with
her slash of red lipstick, mask of bone-white powder, and a tongue that
has always cut to Kevin's heart...and into his darkest nightmares. She
said she was ill - but is that the real reason the old woman summoned
the son she has not seen in so many years?
The Horror: Suddenly, horribly, Mother dies inside the locked nursery.
And now there will be no escape. For now, all the secrets of this
once-proud southern family emerge like tortured spirits from the
sinister past to wrap their evil around the unsuspecting children.
Until, in the shadowed corridors and dust-covered rooms of this decaying
old house, they learn the true terror of The Unloved..
