A good-hearted couple adopts a little girl and then very bad things start happening to their family and those around them. The mystery and trail of dead bodies seems to lead back to the little girl; but none of them suspects the strange secret that she is hiding in the suspenseful thriller directed by Barcelona-born filmmaker Jaume Collet-Serra. Here's a look at .
But what starts out as idyllic soon turns dark and deadly, with Esther manipulating Danny and Max - the two other children - and then driving a wedge between parents John and Kate.
Twelve-year-old Isabelle Fuhrman stars as Esther.
"I really had to prepare and think about who Esther is and who this conflicted character is," Fuhrman explains, "because she does not think that she is the bad guy. She thinks she is in a world that everyone hates her and she is just in the middle and thinks that the world should be punished for that mistake."