While advertised as a horror movie, especially in the trailer, Dream House is, at its core, a movie about grief, about how a man reacts to the loss of his family. The plot concerns Will Attenton, a successful publisher in New York City, who quits his job at GPH Publishing moves his family to the small New England town of New Ashford. His first night there, he sees a bunch of teenagers in his basement and chases them out. He soon learns the house was the site of a triple murder.