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].。幕末时期，日本面临外国列强入侵的局面，而国内局势动荡不安。刚刚在下任将军选定中胜出的“南纪派”代表井伊直弼（松本幸四郎 饰）入主幕府，担任大老之职，不久便掀起“安政大狱”，打击敌对的“一桥派”领袖及下级武士。 以水户浪人星野监物（藤雄之助 饰）为首的32名脱藩武士集结江户，密谋刺杀井伊大老。但井伊并未按预料的那样登城，初次行动失败。副首领住田启二郎（稻叶义男 饰）怀疑内部有人走漏消息，经两位统领排查，最终锁定在尾州浪人新纳鹤千代（三船敏郎 饰）和上州浪人栗原荣之助（小林桂树 饰）身上，他们都和井伊有着千丝万缕的关系……。