视频简介
American psychologist John Holden arrives in London to participate in a symposium aiming to expose witchcraft and devil-worship as a fraud, with attention centered on a cult run by a Julian Karswell. Debarking his plane, Holden learns that the symposium leader, Henry Harrington, has suddenly died and he is now in charge. What only the audience knows is that Harrington was clearly killed by a demon, apparently summoned by Karswell to avenge his persecution. Despite both threatening and cajoling behavior by Karswell, Holden determines to proceed, though the only cult member willing to talk about his experiences is in a prison psychiatric ward, catatonic after allegedly killing yet another cult member. However, Harrington's niece, Joanna, believes, based on her uncle's notes, that Karswell may indeed have some satanic powers derived from an ancient tome in an obscure language which he has been able to translate, and attempts to warn the skeptic Holden. Karswell's mother also attempts to warn Holden off. However, the thing which begins to most get to Holden are the occasional, but mounting, sensory and mental disturbances he begins experiencing after an encounter with Karswell, and the discovery that, during this encounter, Karswell secretly slipped a slip of parchment with a curse in runic symbols on it into Holden's belongings, a parchment identical to one Harrington recorded having had passed to him in a similar manner shortly before his death... [N.B. Holden at no point stays at the Karswell estate].。范尼（斯薇斯特·L·唐兹尔 Sylvestra Le Touzel 饰）出生在一个非常贫穷的家庭之中，为了孩子能够过上更好的生活，年幼的范尼被寄养在了富有的姨夫伯特伦爵士家中。从小就忍受着寄人篱下的生活，让范尼变得格外的会察言观色，好在她有一颗刚正不阿的心灵，能够在浑浊的世事中明辨是非。 18岁那一年，亨利（Robert Burbage 饰）带着妹妹玛丽（Jackie Smith-Wood 饰）搬到了伯特伦爵士家隔壁。已经出落得亭亭玉立的范尼很快就吸引了亨利的注意，后者立刻对她展开了热烈的追求。然而，范尼的心里爱慕的是表格艾德蒙（尼古拉斯·法瑞尔 Nicholas Farrell 饰），没想到艾德蒙却被玛丽给迷住了。。