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].。警探艾迪（罗伯特•德尼罗 Robert De Niro 饰）是纽约的知名人物，他长期在媒体上出镜为公众带来案件实况。两名出狱不久的东欧男子埃米尔（卡瑞尔•罗登 Karel Roden 饰）和奥列格来到纽约，他们找到背叛了自己的同伙，将其杀死后把现场付之一炬，崇拜美国电影的奥列格更把整个过程拍了下来。艾迪在被焚毁的现场遇到纵火调查员乔迪（爱德华•伯恩斯 Edward Burns 饰），后者的干劲令艾迪瞩目，随即两人开始合作。埃米尔和乔迪都发现了目击证人达芙妮的存在，双方展开了寻找达芙妮的竞争，期间埃米尔和奥列格又杀一人，艾迪颇感被动。终于，艾迪和乔迪在达芙妮工作的店中正遇两名嫌凶，艾迪将埃米尔击伤，而这令埃米尔把下一个目标锁定为艾迪……。
