Researchers at the Vanak Psychiatric Sanatorium have conducted secret biological experiments that have resulted in successive deaths of patients and health care workers. In the end, the sanatorium was abandoned, desolate and gloomy for many years, and no one dared to go near it, making it a well-known haunted house. Bizarre billionaire Stephen Price (Geoffrey Rush Jeffrey Roche) decides to hold an ingenious birthday party for his wife Evelyn (Famke Janssen Finka Jason) at the Vannack mental nursing home. He invites six people to come and win a prize of $1 million as long as they dare to spend one night in the haunted house. The challenger came with admiration, but did not know that the real terror was waiting for them. The film won the Best supporting Actor Award (Taye Diggs) at the Blockbuster Entertainment Award in 2000.