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].。根据林语堂先生名著改编，“浮生若梦，为欢几何”，构成辛亥年间的红楼一梦。清末，曾家长子娶妻后即逝，二子经亚娶了清污吏牛家女儿素云，三子顺亚娶了对当时社会诸多不合理现象不满的姚家大女儿木兰。木兰深明大义，虽爱上孔立夫，但仍在安排下嫁给顺亚，而将自己与立夫间的深情埋藏心底，虽然无法抗拒命运的安排，木兰却在“不认命”的信念下，改变、创造了自己的命运。。
