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故事发生在地广人稀的南方工业小镇中，闭塞的环境和苍白的日常让生活在那里的年轻人们脑袋里充满了奇思妙想。保罗（保罗·施耐德 Paul Schneider 饰）是小镇上出了名的花花公子，时至今日，你已经很难在当地找到一个没有和他发生过关系的女孩子了，不过，这些女孩子中并不包括诺瓦（佐伊·丹斯切尔 Zooey Deschanel 饰）。 纯洁的诺瓦理所当然地吸引了保罗的注意，未经人事的她亦很快就坠入了保罗一手制造的温柔乡之中无法自拔。尽管所有人都不看好这段荒唐的感情，但身陷其中的保罗和诺瓦两人依然坚信，他们的未来是光明而又美好的。然而，随着时间的推移，一些棘手的问题开始露出了端倪。。这是斯坦利·库布里克的第一部故事片。剧本出自他的高中同学、诗人Howard Sackler之手，拍摄资金也是库布里克自己筹措，大部分是向父亲、叔叔和朋友们借的。这部作品和库布里克以后的影片一样充满了超现实主义象征性，因此只有一家艺术片商愿意发行和放映，而库布里克认为此片只是一部实习作品，他只答应私下放映，并多次想将拷贝销毁。尽管如此，本片还是赢得了一些评论家的好评，尤其是在摄影方面。。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].。
