剧情介绍
American psycholog ist John Hold en arri ves in L ondon t o participate i n a sympos ium aimin g to exp ose witchcraft and dev il-wors hip as a fr aud, with a ttention cente red on a cult run by a Julian Ka rswell. Deba rking h is plane, Hold en learns that the sym posium leader, Henry Ha rrington, has suddenly died and he is now in cha rge. What on ly the audi ence kn ows is that Harrin gton was cl early killed b y a demon , apparentl y summoned by Karswel l to avenge hi s persecution . Despite both threatening an d cajoling b ehavior by Karswell, H olden d etermines to pro ceed, tho ugh the onl y cult mem ber willing to talk about his experi ences i s in a prison psychiatric ward, cata tonic after a llegedly k illing y et anoth er cult member. However, H arrington&a mp;#39;s ni ece, Joann a, believes, based on her un cle&#39 ;s note s, that Karswe ll may in deed ha ve some s atanic power s derived f rom an ancien t tome in an obscure la nguage which he has been able to translate , and attempt s to wa rn the skept ic Hold en. Karswell 's m other als o attempts to w arn Holden off . However, t he thing whi ch begi ns to most get to Holde n are the o ccasional, but mou nting, s ensory and men tal disturb ances he b egins experienc ing afte r an encounter with Karswel l, and the discov ery that, durin g this encou nter, Ka rswell se cretly slippe d a slip of par chment wit h a curse in runic s ymbols on it into Hol den& ;#39;s belong ings, a parchment i dentica l to on e Harringt on record ed having had passed to him in a si milar manner sh ortly bef ore his death... [N.B. H olden at no p oint stays at the K arswell est ate].详情
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