Even Mother Nature gets into the act, as the torrential rains begin to uncover skeletal evidence of unspeakable crimes. What the Parkers don't realize is that their ghastly secrets are in danger of being revealed by the police, a curious neighbor ( Kelly McGillis) and a local doctor ( Michael Parks) whose daughter was a Parker house entree. On the other hand, teenage daughters Iris ( Ambyr Childers) and Rose ( Julia Garner) are not quite as enthused with the responsibilities that have suddenly been forced upon them. Reeling from his wife's death, domineering father Frank ( Bill Sage) insists on pressing ahead and goes out the night of his wife's death to bring back a not-so-willing volunteer to manacle in the basement in preparation for the ceremony.
Oh yeah, the ritual in question involves cannibalism. This is horrible enough but to make things worse, it is just about time for them to go through a religious ritual that has been performed in the family for a couple of centuries and which can only be done by the woman of the house. Set in a remote small town outside of the Catskill Mountains, the film centers on the Parkers, a fairly reclusive but otherwise normal-seeming family that, as the story opens, is marked by tragedy when the matriarch dies in a tragic accident brought on by a massive rainstorm.
