视频简介
影片根据N·J·克里斯普的舞台剧改编。 拉尔夫是一名年逾七十的过气编剧，如今身患疾病的他还有两个最后的心愿：和被自己遗弃多年的儿子迈克和解；确保自己没有成为年轻的太太安娜的累赘，毕竟他已经开始走入人生的“良夜”。可是，拉尔夫与迈克和解的心愿却因为他与迈克女友发生争执而被打破。不久后，孤身一人的拉尔夫雇佣了一位神秘的“到访者”，希望对方能让他走得不那么痛苦。然而，这位到访者却设下了一个惊人的陷阱。。跟着本节目前往世界各地，好让自己放松和重整。。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].。
