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].。生活在伊朗，荒谬是正常。为儿子改名大卫不获批，因名字太西化；更新驾驶执照被拒，只怪肢体有纹身；汽车遭没收，因为驾车没戴头巾；去应征工人，被要求当场示范拜祭礼仪……两位伊朗80后导演联手执导，以简洁而见巧思的叙事设计，摆定镜头让九名男女大演黑色幽默独脚戏；由小学女生、求职中年汉以至失狗老妪，每天不得不面对政府机关、学校、企业卡夫卡式的荒腔走板。政教威权样样禁制，道德枷锁层层施压，最后土崩瓦解的，可会是整个波斯文化根基？。