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].
简介:在立志成为画家之前,梵高(柯克·道格拉斯 Kirk Douglas 饰)曾经是画廊里颇有前途的售画员,经过几次情感失败之后,他开始尝试成为一名画家。梵高悲天悯人的性格让他能与贫穷矿工们和谐相处,用画笔描绘他们的悲惨生活。他的画奔放热情、情感肆意,但却得不到主流画坛的欣赏。梵高邀请当时正崛起的印象派画家高更(安东尼·奎恩 Anthony Quinn 饰)一同去法国南方作画。多年来,弟弟提奥一直在经济上支持梵高,甚至为他资助高更去南方的所有费用。刚开始两人其乐融融,一起创作了很多高水准的作品,但因两人的个性互不相容,逐渐产生激烈争吵。高更试图离开,梵高为此精神受打击,试图持刀威胁高更,高更仓皇而逃,梵高最终自残割下了自己的耳朵。孤独、贫困的梵高受精神病所折磨,几度进入病院疗养。而他始终没有停止绘画,一直在等待大众的赏识,最终精神崩毁,开枪结束了生命。
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