Uploaded October 2013 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
In a prologue a young boy named Billy Parks (Alexander Gould) is frightened and has difficulty falling asleep after waking up from a nightmare. His mother Mary Parks (Desiree Zurowski) comes in to comfort him and assures him the monster he thinks is in the closet is imaginary. As he tries to fall asleep he sees a dark apparition in his closet staring at him and pulls the covers on top of himself and turns on a flashlight, as he peeks outside the covers he is captured and spirited away by the mysterious apparition.
A few years later the plot focuses on the story of a Psychology grad student named Julia Lund (Laura Regan) and the events that turned her life upside down. As a child she experienced horrifying night terrors, but has seemingly overcome the problem. She reunites with a childhood friend, a now grown up Billy (Jon Abrahams), in the diner Billy is constantly startled by the flickering lights as he is now deathly afraid of the dark, he tells her that he believes their night terrors are caused by something otherworldly as he was kidnapped by mysterious creatures as a child and went missing for two days, he warns her to stay out of the dark, before suddenly committing suicide.
At his funeral, Julia reunites with two of her and Billy's childhood friends Terry Alba (Dagmara Dominczyk), and Sam Burnside (Ethan Embry) who slowly begin to believe his claims as they also experienced night terrors as children and suspect they are returning, Terry explains that her night terrors started when she was 5 years old after witnessing her sister drown in a lake, in one instance she woke up screaming and her parents comforted her and put her back to sleep, her mother checked on her a few hours later and she was gone, after searching throughout the entire house her father found her in the dog house, as he reached in to grab her she stabbed him in the eye with a kitchen knife as she was convinced he wasn't her father and that he was some kind of demon.
In a prologue a young boy named Billy Parks (Alexander Gould) is frightened and has difficulty falling asleep after waking up from a nightmare. His mother Mary Parks (Desiree Zurowski) comes in to comfort him and assures him the monster he thinks is in the closet is imaginary. As he tries to fall asleep he sees a dark apparition in his closet staring at him and pulls the covers on top of himself and turns on a flashlight, as he peeks outside the covers he is captured and spirited away by the mysterious apparition.
A few years later the plot focuses on the story of a Psychology grad student named Julia Lund (Laura Regan) and the events that turned her life upside down. As a child she experienced horrifying night terrors, but has seemingly overcome the problem. She reunites with a childhood friend, a now grown up Billy (Jon Abrahams), in the diner Billy is constantly startled by the flickering lights as he is now deathly afraid of the dark, he tells her that he believes their night terrors are caused by something otherworldly as he was kidnapped by mysterious creatures as a child and went missing for two days, he warns her to stay out of the dark, before suddenly committing suicide.
At his funeral, Julia reunites with two of her and Billy's childhood friends Terry Alba (Dagmara Dominczyk), and Sam Burnside (Ethan Embry) who slowly begin to believe his claims as they also experienced night terrors as children and suspect they are returning, Terry explains that her night terrors started when she was 5 years old after witnessing her sister drown in a lake, in one instance she woke up screaming and her parents comforted her and put her back to sleep, her mother checked on her a few hours later and she was gone, after searching throughout the entire house her father found her in the dog house, as he reached in to grab her she stabbed him in the eye with a kitchen knife as she was convinced he wasn't her father and that he was some kind of demon.
