Edward, always under the control of his sister Amanda, devises a plan to gain the family fortune and take advantage of her ailing health by scaring her to death. He hires Esther, a mysterious ex-convict nurse, to care for her and induce the end of his sister. But Esther has plans of her own as a web of double crosses and macabre family secrets unfold. A remake of the 1978 terror classic and starring legendary Scream Queen Brinke Stevens.