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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].。本片采用了事件重现的方法再现了1976年美国得克萨斯州达拉斯市一起枪杀警察案。导演埃罗尔•莫里斯（Errol Morris）11年后采访了被判死刑、后转终身监禁的犯罪嫌疑人兰道•亚当姆斯（Randall Adams）、指证亚当姆斯的惯犯大卫•哈里斯（David Harris）、当年案件审判的三位证人米勒夫妇和麦克•兰道（Michael Randall），以及参与此案侦破与审判的警察、法官与律师们。通过不同人物对案件发生情形不同角度的描述，莫里斯成功证实了亚当姆斯的冤屈，并借片中一位公诉员之口点名警察是区分一个民主社会与极权的“细蓝线”。 此片的公映在美国引起极大反响。德克萨斯罪犯申诉庭推翻了对亚当姆斯的判决。由于达拉斯拒绝对此案进行重审，亚当姆斯终于1989年被无罪释放，后成为积极反对死刑的社会活动家。本片也成为美国纪录片史上极为重要的一部，赢得国际...。全世界已经发现和描述了140多万种动植物。南非只占地球表面的2%，但它却有着很一大部分壮观的全球生物多样性。毫无疑问，南非是一个美丽的国家，也是种类繁多的动植物的家园。世界各地的人们都来这里观赏令人惊叹的野生动物和独特的植物群。因此请和我们一道，我们将前往南非一些最令人惊叹和多样化的地貌，会一会一班正在致力于保护南非一些最稀有动植物的专业人士。。