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回复 :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].
回复 :咸丰二年(1852年),颇有姿色的叶赫那拉氏玉兰(刘晓庆)被选进宫册封为贵人,由于历史上叶赫那拉与爱新觉罗两家族有宿仇,玉兰起初不得咸丰(梁家辉)的宠幸,但善于心计的她终以一曲哀怨缠绵小调和倾城美貌将咸丰紧紧捆绑,被册封为懿嫔,又因生下儿子载淳,被进封为懿贵妃,地位一时除皇后(陈烨)外,无人可及。清宫各嫔妃争宠、咸丰耽于享乐之时,觊觎大清财富良久的英法等帝国对中国屡次发兵侵犯,胆小怕事的咸丰在肃清等八位大臣的规劝下,丢下举世闻名的有“万园之园”之称的圆明园,以“秋猎”之名携带众嫔妃逃到了热河行宫,继续“两耳不闻窗外事,一心只行及时乐”的奢淫生活。