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].。寡妇黛莉拉（凯特卡普萧饰）在漫天风尘的堪萨斯州小镇上，经营了一个牧场，神秘的她一生坎坷，无药可救的沉溺在酒精、香烟与性爱上，她每天都会叫一个牧场的男工人来陪她过夜，这些工人们根本没有拒绝的余地。黛莉拉的身边跟着一个孤僻的儿子菲宝，他完全受控于母亲，虽然已长大成人，但是却是极端的单纯害羞。一日，年轻性感的流浪汉克雷（文斯法汉饰）来到了这个小镇，被介绍到黛莉拉的牧场工作，他也不例外的被女老板引诱过夜，但是，克雷爱的是美丽的凯蒂（艾许莉贾德饰），于是大胆拒绝了女老板的要求，不过，他却与菲宝成了好朋友。随著两人越来越浓厚的友谊，菲宝渐渐走出自闭的小空间，开始懂得反抗母亲，嫉妒的黛莉拉想尽方法要让两人彼此伤害，一场欲望与忿怒交织的战争在牧场上延烧开来……。