On a night when their quiet suburban neighborhood is plagued by mysterious blackouts, the tight-knit Armstrong clan presses on with its plans to celebrate the birthday of the head of their family, CURTIS ARMSTRONG SR. In the dark, the Armstrongs hang banners and carefully place candles on the birthday cake. They have no idea how truly cursed this family gathering will be.
As his family tensely awaits his return, the irritable Curtis Sr. is out in the chaos of the blacked-out city on a mission to evict squatters from one of his downtown properties. What he finds in that crumbling building are no ordinary "squatters." Instead, he comes face to face with an Old World horror intent on spreading its evil in the New World.