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].。南加利福尼亚，高中生布伦丹·弗莱（约瑟夫·戈登-李维特 Joseph Gordon-Levitt 饰）接到前女友艾米丽•考斯特奇（艾米丽·Emilie de Ravin 饰）的电话，分手两个月来她过得并不好，似乎正在面临巨大的磨难。在接下来的两天里，布伦丹四处寻找艾米丽，最终看到的却是她的尸体。为了弄清艾米丽死亡背后的真相，布伦丹执着地展开调查。他寻找任何可能与艾米丽有关的人与事，从而卷入巨大的黑暗漩涡之中……。