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].。带着对未来无限美好的憧憬,张红娟(石爻饰)来到城市打工,却不幸被骗入卖淫窝点。在绝望中,她奋力抗争,并成功用刀戳伤了企图阻止她逃离的老板。张红娟惊慌失措地逃出城市,一路跌跌撞撞来到一个名为“杀牛坪”的村口。在那里,误以为她是上级派来的女教师的村长接待了她。从此,张红娟成为这里的小学教师。这些纯真和善良的孩子们给了她前所未有的温暖,同时她也意识到了作为教师的崇高责任。在大山的怀抱中,张红娟感受到了内心灵魂的净化和升华。 村长和村民们对这位优秀的教师感到欣喜,使张红娟逐渐忘却了曾经的痛苦。然而,就在此时,公安人员找到了她。经过半年的调查,案情真相大白,证明张红娟的伤人行为属于正当防卫,她因此被无罪释放。张红娟充满喜悦地回到她日夜思念的大山,那里有她的学生们,有她所有的爱与奉献。。