Brand new factory sealed vhs tape is perfect for old school televisions as the image will fill your square screen. The uncompressed audio also has more gusto than it's digital counterpart. Kevin Bacon stars as a blue-collar Chicago telephone repair lineman named Tom Witzky. One boozy night, his sister-in-law Lisa (Douglas) talks about hypnosis. Tom claims he can't be hypnotized. Lisa tries. She evokes an empty theatre and sends Tom drifting toward the screen; he spirals deeply into a trance, and awakens after a terrifying vision of violent but indistinct events in his own house. The haunting visitations do not go away. Tom's nights are prowled by nightmares, and his lovemaking is interrupted by hallucinations of severed body parts. He starts calling in sick, and his wife, Maggie (Kathryn Erbe) is worried. Only his son Jake (Zachary David Cope) understands. Early in the film he asks an unseen prescence, "Does it hurt to be dead?" After a vision of a ghostly young woman named Samantha appears to Tom on his living room sofa, Jake reaches out and touches his hand: "Don't be afraid of it, Daddy". We learn that several months ago a mentally retarded girl named Samantha disappeared in the neighborhood. Then Samatha tells Tom to "dig". So he digs. He digs up the backyard. Then he starts on the cellar...