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].。影片改编自真实事件。故事发生在地处偏远的一处法国小镇之上，克里斯蒂安（朱莉·理查德森 Joely Richardson 饰）和莱尔（乔迪·梅 Jodhi May 饰）是情同手足的两姐妹，从小孤苦伶仃相依为命的生活让两人之间接下了深深的感情和羁绊。 长大后，为了谋求生计，两姐妹一起来到了当地的一户富裕人家做女佣，生活工作虽然辛苦，但只要两人能够在一起，日子过得也算是安稳平静。随着时间的推移，长久以来的寂寞生活令克里斯蒂安和莱尔的心中充满了空虚与激情，渐渐的，她们开始学会在彼此的身上寻找情感慰藉。一次工作中，莱尔无意里烫坏了女主人丹泽（朱丽·沃特斯 Julie Walters 饰）的婚纱，丹泽大发雷霆，就此点燃了悲剧的导火索。。
