A university student (Sam Claflin of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire) and some classmates are recruited to carry out a private experiment -- to create a poltergeist. Their subject: an alluring, but dangerously disturbed young woman (Olivia Cooke of “Bates Motel”).

Their quest: to explore the dark energy that her damaged psyche might manifest. As the experiment unravels along with their sanity, the rogue Ph.D. students are soon confronted with a terrifying reality: They have triggered an unspeakable force with a power beyond all explanation. Inspired by true events.