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].。电商巨头亚马逊正式宣布,他们将大举进军电影业,计划每年出品12部影片。近日,有消息传出,亚马逊确定投拍美国黑人导演斯派克·李的新作《Chiraq》。影片剧本细节及项目进程状况都尚未公布,据称电影卡司囊括“复联队长”塞缪尔·杰克逊、“侃爷”坎耶·韦斯特、科曼等一众黑人男星,演员杰里米·皮文亦有望参演。
"Chiraq"实质上是美国城市芝加哥的别称——该城市近年频频因枪支暴力事件见诸报端。坎耶·韦斯特是土生土长的芝加哥人,而杰里米·皮文的童年也基本是在芝加哥度过。参照斯派克·李此前执导影片的路数,《Chiraq》应该还是会持续关注黑人生存境遇。。