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].。有着灰暗过去的伊丽娅·叶利什科（Kseniya Rappoport 饰）从乌克兰来到意大利的维拉齐，她租住简陋破败的房间，向对面公寓的看门人请求工作，甚至情愿将薪水的一部分分给对方。在此之后，她又结识该公寓内某个三口之家的女佣吉娜（Piera Degli Esposti 饰），千方百计打听这户姓安德齐尔人家的事情，还盗配了他们家的钥匙。而为了进入安德齐尔家，伊丽娅更是不择手段。她似乎在寻找什么，又似乎在躲避着什么。这一切仿佛都和伊丽娅那段过去紧紧相连…… 本片荣获2007年欧洲电影节观众选择奖最佳影片；2007年意大利大卫奖最佳导演、最佳影片、最佳女主角（Kseniya Rappoport）、最佳配乐和最佳摄影等5项大奖。。
