剧情简介
某中学中学生郑晓雯被同学取笑，说她爸爸总是以自己女儿为素材在报纸上发表文章，晓雯听到后十分恼火，气冲冲地回家找爸爸算帐。这时，刘编辑登门要稿，晓雯要小花招使爸爸十分尴尬。后来，晓雯认真地向父亲提出为他征婚一事，父亲不在意地点头，谁知几日之后，一乡下女孩前来应征，只比晓雯大三岁，老郑哭笑不得，只好暂收留她。晓雯的母亲在国外几次找电话来要让晓雯出国读书。在父亲的处女文集出版之时，父亲向女儿合盘托出晓雯的身世：原来他不是晓雯的生父，晓雯的生父在一次事故中牺牲，妈妈把晓雯托给了他，自己出了国，晓雯非常伤心，但她还是爱着养父，不会离开他。天亮了，女儿长大了，父女俩又在林荫路上跑步锻炼了。。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].。
