视频简介
这是一个发生在大明朝的《无间道》故事，不是警方与黑帮的对峙，而是锦衣卫与谋叛藩王之间的角逐。武侠片中其实从来不缺锦衣卫，他们在那里总是助纣为虐的朝廷鹰犬，与东厂西厂齐名，一样的阴鸷险恶。锦衣卫是皇家禁卫军中的精英才俊，磊落男儿，既有市井丁壮，也有勋臣后裔，并非东西厂一般，由宦官指挥，专走阴险路线。历任指挥使中，不乏悯忠护贤的卓绝之士，有的甚至不惜以去就相争，气节不亚于言官谏臣。而锦衣卫成员与指挥使的关系，也有一种特别的袍泽之情。。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].。