童谣本应该充满欢声笑语,但世界上偏偏有这么一些童谣,让人听了毛骨悚然。小镇拉文斯•法尔就流传着这样一个恐怖的童谣:小心来自玛丽•肖的凝视;她没有孩子,只有玩偶;如果你看到她,不要尖叫;否则她会扯开你的嘴巴撕掉你的舌头。这个小镇一直就在笼罩在这个童谣的诅咒之下,只要有玩偶出现的地方,就有人遇害,死状一样,都是舌头被割下。 吉米(瑞恩•科万顿 Ryan Kwanten 饰)和萨丽新婚不久,就决定搬离这个受诅咒的地方,但最终萨丽还是没有逃脱这个诅咒。悲伤不已的吉米决定送妻子的尸骸返回家乡,并着手调查这个笼罩在整个小镇头上的恐怖诅咒。随着调查的深入,吉米发现了这首童谣背后的另一个真相。Every town has its own ghost story, and a local folktale around Ravens Fair is about a ventriloquist named Mary Shaw. After she went mad in the 1940s, she was accused of kidnapping a young boy who yelled out in one of her performances that she was a fraud. Because of this she was hunted down by townspeople who in the ultimate act of revenge, cut out her tongue and then killed her. They buried her along with her "children," a handmade collection of vaudeville dolls, and assumed they had silenced her forever. However, Ravens Fair has been plagued by mysterious deaths around them after Mary Shaws collection has returned from their graves and have come to seek revenge on people that killed her and their families. Far from the pall of their cursed hometown, newlyweds Jamie and Lisa Ashen thought they had established a fresh start, until Jamie's wife is grotesquely killed in their apartment. Jamie returns to Ravens Fair for the funeral, intent on unraveling the mystery of Lisa's death. Once reunited with his ill father, Edward, and his father's new young bride, Ella, Jamie must dig into the town's bloody past to find out who killed his wife and why. All the while, he is doggedly pursued by a detective who doesn't believe a word he says. As he uncovers the legend of Mary Shaw, he will unlock the story of her curse and the truth behind the threat from a rhyme in his childhood: if you see Mary Shaw and scream, she'll take your tongue. And the last thing you will hear before you die...is your own voice speaking back to you.