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].。上世纪30年代，一家德国巧克力厂的老板是俄国人，面对婚姻和事业双重触礁，万念俱灰。他幻想脱离自己的生活，如同灵魂出窍似的从旁观察自己。当他看到一个街头流浪汉时，那人在他眼里跟他自己长得一模一样。为了“互换身份”，他杀死了对方。 本片跟法斯宾德其他作品有很大差异，他采用了知名编剧的剧本，而且还是改编自纳博科夫的小说。精彩对白似乎集中在影片的前三分之一。影片大胆、俗气，曾遭到广泛的恶评。。
