In 1986, Carl calls his friend Elise Ranier to help discover what is haunting Lorraine Lambert's son, Josh. After hypnotizing Josh, Elise attempts to find the location of Josh's "friend", an old woman who appears in photographs of him. She makes her way to his bedroom closet and is scratched on the arm. Lorraine, Carl and Elise agree that making Josh forget his astral projection abilities is the best thing to do.
Twenty-five years later, Josh's wife Renai is under questioning by a police detective about the death of Elise. Unsettled, Renai and her family relocate to Lorraine's house, where Renai witnesses strange occurrences and suspects that Josh is inhabited by the old woman. Josh begins hearing female voices urging him to kill his family in order to stay alive. The next day, Lorraine sees a woman in a white dress in the living room. Following the cries of her baby daughter, Cali, Renai faces the woman and is knocked unconscious. Lorraine visits Elise's colleagues, Specs and Tucker, to seek an explanation behind the strange events.
They call Carl, who attempts to contact Elise using word-dice. Through the dice, they are told to find answers at the "Our Lady of Angels" hospital, where Lorraine recounts the story of a patient named Parker Crane, who was admitted to the hospital for trying to castrate himself and eventually committed suicide many years ago. In Parker's home, they find a secret room with 15 corpses in it, a black wedding gown and newspaper clippings about a killer referred to as "The Bride in Black," who kidnapped and murdered several people while dressed as a woman. It is then revealed that it was not Elise speaking through the dice, but Parker's mother. Meanwhile, Josh's body begins to slowly deteriorate.
Lorraine insists that she, Renai, and the kids get away from Josh. Carl arrives to drug Josh, but he deduces that Carl knows he is possessed by Parker, and attacks him. Specs and Tucker enter to help Carl but Josh incapacitates all three. Carl awakes as a spirit, where he meets the real Josh, and together they go into The Further to seek Elise. Josh enters his former house and goes into his daughter's room, where an evil spirit is approaching his infant daughter. He intervenes and struggles with the spirit but is overpowered. Elise appears and banishes the spirit from the house. These events correspond with the mysterious incident from the first film, in which the front door is repeatedly opened and the alarm sounds; it is Josh's astral self trying to enter the house to help his daughter.
In the real world, Josh - possessed by Parker - ambushes Lorraine and Renai. He attempts to choke Renai but is knocked over the head by Dalton. Renai and the children escape to the basement. Dalton falls asleep and returns to The Further to rescue his father. In The Further, the real Josh, Carl and Elise proceed to Parker's house, where they witness his mother Michelle, the woman in white, abusing him as a child. Michelle had raised him as a girl, calling him Marilyn. She is violently abusive whenever he acts as a boy or refers to himself as Parker. Parker had killed his female victims at the behest of his mother's spirit, who had also told him that killing Josh's family would sustain his new body (because it was rejecting his soul). Josh eventually finds the room filled with standing bodies—-assumed to be Parker's victims. Upon finding Michelle, the two engage in a fight. Elise saves Josh; after the three escape, they meet Dalton, who helps Carl and Josh return to the living world. Josh and Dalton wake up as themselves, and their memories of their astral projection abilities are forgotten through a process of hypnosis by Carl.
Some time later, Specs and Tucker proceed to go to a family whose daughter, Allison, is in an unexplained coma. Unbeknownst to them, Elise enters the home and approaches Allison, though the family's younger daughter Annie notices Elise. She hears a crackling sound (the sound that signals the Lipstick-Face Demon's presence) and gasps as she sees something in the shadows.
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