spoiler with a gathering of family member and servant of the late christopher dean and john carradine and to hear his last will and testament they get somewhat of a surprise in that the dean fortune and some 140 million dollar . the money be to be divide between them but only after they successfully spend a week at the dean mansion . there seem to have be a mix up in the story when we later find out that it really an overnight sleepover and not a week vacation and at the mansion for the guest to qualify for dean money since almost everyone end up dead by sunrise . the first victim of the dean curse have nothing at all to do with get and money from the depart christopher dean estate the local sheriff dan garcia and rodolfo acosta . acosta have his head chop off refrigerate and then serve on a platter to a shocked group of guest . later that even cute little chin greg and laura and jeff morrow and marry anders and little pet pooch be find dead outside float in the pond . the movie have all the people stay at the dean mansion be pick off one by one until it reveal who the killer really be . we then have what seem to be a double twist in the story where the original killer be suddenly kill together with two of the last remaining guest . the real killer end up not only get all the loot and 140 million dollar and but then end up not have to split it with his accomplice by do him and or her and in by give him a poisonous cookie that kill him on the spot . nonsensical who do it and and haunt house and movie with a cast of such immoral and unlikable character that even a mother and much less the audience and would have trouble like . there everything you can possibly think of in the move involve the selective guest that include incest s and m sadism and of course double dealing and back stab not even count murder . you just couldn not care less who of the guest survive to collect the dean fortune at the end of the movie hop against all hope then none of them do . even the big surprise at the end isn not really that much of a surprise since the killer identity be divulge with the film maker have forget to keep his face in the shadow so you actual see who he be even before he reveal himself . we then have a plot twist that eliminate the killer together with a number of remain guest just to make the movie a little more confusing then it already be . the final plot twist and that you can see come from as far a ten mile away and be just to show how smart the very obvious killer be which fool almost nobody watch the movie .