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].。本片以第二次世界大战末期，在意大利登陆的美军攻破德军防线为背景，导演以令人感动的场面把美军从南部攻到北部期间所引发的一些意大利民间故事编成一部有连贯性的社会写实的电影，画面上的真实感，给予人们非常大的冲击，创下了意大利电影的新潮流…… 大师罗西里尼的战后三部曲的第二部，第一部是《罗马，不设防的城市》，最后一部是《德意志零年》。作为新现实主义的奠基人，罗西里尼几乎不使用剧本，并明确拒绝使用摄影棚、服装、化妆和职业演员。影片由6个小故事组成，背景是二战后期盟军在意大利登陆后攻破德军防线，从南部向北部进攻期间引发的一些民间小故事。罗西里尼在摄影机前重现了美国大兵，游击队员、修道士等，以及普通平民在那个烽火连天的岁月里的真实遭遇，影片穿插了很多真实的战争镜头，令观众感同身受。。电影讲述了一场已经预测到的台风即将来袭，主角一家固执的父亲、忙碌的儿子和叛逆的女儿越过整个风暴城市，潜入实验室联手解决风暴危机，拯救全城生命的故事。。
