本片讲述了，在30年代的美国，一个谋杀儿童的连环杀手Albert Fish的故事。 A solid thriller about Albert Fish (a very fine performance by Patrick Bauchau), the real life serial killer of children in 1930's America. Fish seemed a harmless old man, but in 1934 he was arrested as the murderer of several missing children he somehow duped their families into leaving him with (using an assumed name throughout). Part character study and part detective procedural, The Gray Man wisely avoids graphic horror and sensationalism (Fish's murders, for instance, are never shown on camera), and while it is rather conventional, it is nevertheless quite chilling nonetheless and it shows a director with a very keen sense of storytelling.

因某些原因，雷克家的三姐妹布瑞尔（凯尔希·克莱恩 Kelsey Crane 饰）、凯丽（凯尔希·韦迪恩 Kelsey Wedeen 饰）和萨曼莎（塔拉·格莱德 Tara Gerard 饰）与父亲约翰（丹·伍兹 Dan Woods 饰）的关系分外紧张，她们搬出家去，各自过着独立的生活。某晚，布瑞尔接到父亲的电话，声称她们的爷爷刚刚死去，然而此前姐妹们一直认为爷爷早已去世。次日，满腹狐疑的布瑞尔更收到一份遗嘱，上面称爷爷将一座湖边旅馆作为遗产留给三姐妹。正被金钱困扰的萨曼莎先行前往，却遭遇了恐怖事件。
　　葬礼上，布瑞尔见到久违的父亲。她并未听从父亲的劝说，执意要前往湖边旅馆。次日，布瑞尔和男友本（Jim Devoti 饰）、凯丽以及一众好友相约出发。他们欢呼雀跃，却不知道等待自己的是死神的镰刀…