恶魔 .之夜

剧情简介

American #>psyc^hologist Joh%#;n Holden arrives .\i_+# #n London to"_% ;`partic\i p ;ate/": ](in a sympos^))ium aiming to expose witc]hcraft a<
nd  de,>vil-wo
'rsh'=!ip as a fr/;a>ud, wi$[ th/ at&tention &center+ed +?'on= a cul#t->[ run b+#y a Jul`+ian Kars;@ well. Debarking his pla#n&e, Holde=]$n l]%?.?earns that the symp
osiu>[m leader, ,=Henry Har*\ring@ t 'on, has s";uddenly died^_ and he/_ )is now! in charge. What @(only (#=the audience knows is that Harri:ngton was clearly ? killed by a dem_ $,on, a&pparently s$-ummoned"% by. Karswel]<\l +'[to a[&>]venge/ hi`#s persecution. Despite both\) threatening /"?^and cajo`:]&ling behavior by Kar?,swell, Holden'( ^determ]]ines to ][proceed, (-!though- :the only cult member willing to talk about his :\<

experience_^s is in a prison psych#*i" $&atric war\@[d, ca=taton?ic &_?'a"[f\ ter alle^=ge)d ly killing+>^ [`
ye.;t another cult _\member.' *Howeve& r, Harring=t$[%on%=('/>s?\ niece, Joanna,^@-- >,_believes, based on[ her uncl!@e's ^#not<,es, that Karswell may  indeed have @^s!ome sata nic power>s d,erived+ ) f/rom an an:^cien"[t tom;e i%n\$` an ;`"obsc_
ure ^!'languag#[.e which h>`!e has-=_'' been a$',b#le to <tra_! nslate,.- a?nd at':tempts )to ;-^warn th],;e skeptic H )olden. Karswell's(` m]other also attempts +%t^)o war: n Holden off. How"ever, t-`he >thing which > begins to mos)
*t g/et !to),% $ Holden are th]..e occ[@
)asio<_nal, but .
$mou"'nting, s^
%ensory an'd me'ntal ( disturbances he begins^" experien/_'cing afte`r an encou n;? ter -with Karswell, and the &dis^cover#., y that, during this en&c$ :ounte@) r>+, Kar_^+swe%,(ll sec<"<retly sl >)i+`pped a slip^-= of parchmen :-t with ^( a curse #i 'n 'runic symb'; o ls >on it /-into H/<olde=@n'?/s belong
?in\ gs, a parch%&m(ent i&+@de('ntica] l 
//to]] on(e H"-%arrington record</
ed hav/%:in)g ha&>+d passed to him in /a s -;imila<,r % ma/)nner shortly be(!#f^o@`re his death... [N.B. Holden at no !point stays at th?.,e Karswell estate].