视频简介
二十年代的美国，纽约少年“面条”和几个同龄朋友一起认识了聪明狡黠的麦克斯，他们开始从事走私活动。不久，“面条”在一场械斗中杀伤人命，被关进监牢。 若干年后，“面条”出狱，当时的小伙伴们已经变成了健壮的青年人，在麦克斯的带领下，他们开始了一系列抢劫、盗窃、敲诈活动。随着犯罪活动的不断深入，麦克斯似乎被胜利冲昏了头脑，竟然把美国联邦储备银行也列入了行动目标。“面条”不忍眼看好友走向毁灭，偷偷打电话报警，想逼迫麦克斯收手。警察与“面条”的朋友展开激烈枪战，麦克斯等人全部被杀。“面条”带着深深的悔恨和痛苦，离开纽约，回到年少时生长的地方。 多年过后，几近垂暮的“面条”重新回到纽约，他遇见了少时的朋友和旧情人，而当年麦克斯等人的死因背后，竟隐藏着出乎意料的阴谋。。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].。
