当下，好逸恶劳，一劳永逸已成为很多年轻人的通病。本电影通过诙谐幽默的盗墓类反面教材，以社会底层的人物，去阐释做好当下的工作，唯有勤勤恳恳方是成功的必要保障。打肿脸充胖子，心存一夜暴富的念头，到头来，只能是竹篮打水一场空，甚至，成为别人的笑话。
Charles Dexter Ward's wife enlists the help of a private detective to find out what her husband is up to in a remote cabin owned by his family for centuries. The husband is a chemical engineer| and the smells from his experiments (and the delivery of what appear to be human remains at all hours) are beginning to arouse the attention of neighbors and local law enforcement officials. When the detective and wife find a diary of the husband's ancestor from 1771| and reports of gruesome murders in the area begin to surface| they begin to suspect that some very unnatural experiments are being conducted in the old house. Based on an H.P. Lovecraft
