A family moving into a suspiciously inexpensive house in a town in Utah. They are soon attacked by the "Night Crawlers", ground-dwelling paper mache monsters with four drawn-on eyes and antennae.

A group of friends come together to support a man who has just lost his wife. After the funeral, the group decide to stay at the widower’s house for a long weekend. However, a black gloved killer is stalking the property and knocking off the friends one by one.

A recently widowed writer rents a haunted house in which to write his latest novel and is soon beset by the various ghosts in the house bent on claiming him as their next victim.