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].
No matter how hard it gets,even if it feels impossible.Don‘t let go.Just hold on and keep going.Just keep going.
三观到五观棒子都骑在光电总菊的脖子上撒尿。
电影本身拍得并不出彩且有点理想化，但胜在真实改编和题材敢拍，商业电影早就抛离我们几条街是事实；内地从不缺题材、资金和影视人才，但就是不敢拍和难以过审就直接摆烂，反正多烂都有观众捧场，这才是让人心痛；虽然港台电影也是日落西山，但衬托下也只有寄望港台地区；本片现实意义大于电影质素，3.5星~
由于没看过原剧，就觉得音乐剧确实不应该改成剧情片不然就会扯。这其实就是一个虚伪的社会吧，大家都只看得到自己想看到的，好的吧。以及虽然是原版演员但在电影里真的显得太老了，不合啊……
本来以为是惊悚片，原来是社会政治片。这种吸入的东西最好里面别加添加剂。
电影拍的中规中矩，并不出彩，但这社会问题能拍出来就是言论自由的一种体现.......
比起音乐剧讽刺性弱了太多，拍的感染力不足，立意不如音乐剧鲜明。亮点是增加了几首原创，挺好听的。总体演绎的很一般，无新意，部分唱段略尬。
把所有证人和律师通通收买了，一丁点希望都不给他们。不过估计这戏也是过不了审了，只能自己慢慢欣赏。
取材于真实事件勉强给三星，导演功底不太好，剧作方面也有挺大的问题。
原来那个徐宇直才是幕后大佬主角吗？哈哈，毕竟这经历，这忍辱负重的，也是家里人因为空气净化器消毒液死亡的人，只是我看到事情差不多平息的时候他问他老板剩下的那一大批是不是要销毁而他老板说换个主料继续投入销售，反正死不了几个人，死了也有人可以解决得了的时候我真是thankyou了，这真是太恶心人了。。
韩国电影确实敢拍，但是要靠外国人出事才重视，还是澳大利亚政府认定危害。。哎！
太悲哀了。表面上公务员本应该是守护公民的人，但无论韩国我们，有多少人是真的抱着守护公民服务公民的梦想和志向去拼命学习争取考试合格的呢
韩国拍这种真实新闻改编题材向来有一手，整体气氛烘托得很好，但是结尾的转折太刻意了。观影最大的感受就是：生命如草芥，每天都活在人为制造的不确定性中。
略平缓的节奏、压抑的情绪，对应的正是现实中的这种无力感。演员们代我们说着心里话，将“演”无限荒诞化。
剧情发展都可以猜得到，不过对于受害者具体的家庭、具体的人刻画得很写实，鉴于这是真实发生过的惨案，真正的受害者家庭看了会更难过吧，最后那个男主诘问和群众的呼喊很震撼
i'm waving through the window
韩版黑水，多年之后希望不要有什么消毒湿巾的黑料曝出来
三星半，太久没看过这种题材了，棒子国还是很敢。
剧情发展都可以猜得到，不过对于受害者具体的家庭、具体的人刻画得很写实，鉴于这是真实发生过的惨案，真正的受害者家庭看了会更难过吧，最后那个男主诘问和群众的呼喊很震撼
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