剧情简介
汤米·亨德克斯一直是拳击场上一名综合格斗术斗士，在拳击场上，他无所畏惧，所向披靡，他认为每一次比赛都是一次伟大的战斗。他为自己的事业感到非常骄傲和自豪。他用尽全力赢得每一次比赛。但是比赛结束后他就会感到空虚，甚至在质疑自己一直以来奋斗的战场。他不确定自己这样的战斗是否就是自己需要的，自已一直以来追求的。慢慢地，他明白了这一点。他越来越意识到在过去他就像是在笼子里战斗着，只听得见欢呼和掌声，呐喊和愤怒，他就像被包围住了，出不去，也听不见自己内心的声音。他渐渐地远离着真正的战斗：那就是寻找上帝，寻找内心的声音。。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].。