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剧情简介
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].
观众心声
"you are right, maybe it's better not to know"最好的結局和結論，火車駛過，John和Joanna消失在畫面裡，好像什麼也沒有發生，好像我們什麼也不知道，這樣影片之前發生的一切才成為可能
玄学这东西，就像结尾台词，还是别让太多人知道了，反正我也不想知道
这什么传纸条杀人事件！更搞笑的是那个恶魔特效就像坐着小推车挪过来一样hhh大蓝猫变豹子好萌！还有男女主相遇的情节很有趣，中间圆桌招魂，附身的对话我觉得算是看点吧，因为恶魔太弱智，只能看演技，那个大风刮过来呼呼的人类作鸟兽状散去，我还以为要发生点啥呢！就进屋了可还行o.O？！不过57年已经很不错了，翻到80版影评才发现我2年前就想看结果看错成那边的了嘎嘎嘎！
对白较好，结构扎实。
这部57年的电影影响了无数影人：它是马丁斯科塞斯的11大恐怖片，更是山姆雷米的《堕入地狱》致敬对象。在RKO的val lewton调教后jacques tourneur将lewton式恐怖片发挥到了极致。虽打着魔鬼与巫术的噱头，但本片的视觉恐怖场景并不多，纯粹靠的是剧情的递进和悬念来制造恐惧感，十足大师范儿。