视频简介
The government cover-up of the causes behind a massive explosion in a futuristic UK metropolis spur photo journalist Jennifer Preston on to search for the truth and in the process blow open a paranormal phenomenon haunting the city.。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].。1836年1月9日皮埃尔·拉斯纳尔因为谋杀和偷窃而走上了断头台。之前在等待审判期间，他给警官阿拉尔写下了自己的回忆录。他还请求阿拉尔照顾艾尔米娜这个小姑娘，他做她的监护人已有十多年了。在影片的闪回中，在他自己所描写的监狱情况，还有阿拉尔和艾尔米娜读完回忆录后的调查，连同回忆录出版后其他人的反映，观众看到了拉斯纳尔的童年生活：先是做小流氓，然后是盗窃，第一次谋杀，第一次服兵役，接着引诱一位公主，还有与他有过风流史最后挨着他身边死去的一个青年男子阿弗里尔。。
