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一心要出名发财的查克·巴瑞斯(萨姆·罗克威尔饰)在一次偶然中赤裸的与他未来的妻子潘妮(德鲁·巴里摩尔饰)见面了。这绝对是一个巧合，因为他只不过是刚刚和潘妮的室友上了床，光着身子到她们厨房找东西而已。 但更加巧合的并不仅仅这些。巴瑞斯后来不仅凭借机遇当上了电视台几款疯狂的综艺竞赛节目的主持人，而且还被中央情报局的吉姆(乔治·克鲁尼饰)看中。吉姆要巴瑞斯利用主持人的身份作掩护，执行暗杀计划。为了国家的荣誉，巴瑞斯义不容辞，何况还有美丽的帮手帕特丽夏(朱丽娅·罗伯茨饰)在暗中帮忙呢！ 这个奢靡、夸大、好色的家伙，于是开始了一场绝对疯狂的双面游戏。但这种时而命悬一线，时而众人瞩目的角色，真的可以为他带来期待的人生么？。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].。