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].。丹普斯肯恩（克里斯多夫·李维饰）一直是位受尊敬的警探，表面上生活美满，妻子盖儿和弟弟尼克却私通已久，将他蒙在鼓里。一次突击中，丹普斯伤及脊椎，导致下半身瘫痪。绝望沮丧之余，他计划了一个诡异的方法，要让盖儿与尼克拿到他的寿险金，但结果却是盖儿与尼克身亡。资深警探莱哈特（乔伊·蒙泰格纳饰）认为事有蹊翘，便着手调查发现许多疑点，他怀疑丹普斯假装瘫痪，于是将案子交给政风处，准备控告丹普斯，然而经过一番斗智较劲后，法官却因证据不足宣布撤销此案，莱哈特便……。