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].。这部惊险报仇片剧情复杂,线索纵横交错,黑泽明通过一宗贿赂事件,无情地揭露了日本官商界的黑暗,对人性的丑恶一面刻划得入木三分。在构图方面,黑泽明控制得更完美无瑕,通道、楼梯、房间的排列、镜的摆设,以至瓦砾堆的空间布置,都拍得均整有致,计算得惊人地准确。。海城首富之女宋蓁蓁不顾父亲反对,执意要与软弱无能的何少臣结婚。婚礼当天,何家以各种荒诞习俗刁难宋蓁蓁,包括要求她跪在门口迎亲、签署长达三千条的家规,甚至在婚礼现场泼鸡血驱邪。宋蓁蓁为了孩子和婚礼顺利进行,忍气吞声,但何家的行为让她彻底失望.。