视频简介
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].。该片拍制历时三年，几经修改打磨。头三集动用了来自多个国家的演员，参与再现东西方文明史中那些文明巨人的著作形成或影响历史的伟大故事，同时使用大量动画来力求生动表现读书与文明史的深刻关联。第四集通过钱镠家族、翁同龢家族、蒲松龄传奇等，揭示人生的高度与读书之间的关联，读书的祖传家训具有启示教益价值。第五集则展现了全民阅读在中国的实践历程，及对社会产生的深远文化影响。。该剧讲述富家少爷欧阳逸飞，因不堪母亲的束缚离家出走，在躲避保镖追踪和仇家追杀的过程中，流浪到“小城”林城，偶遇“野蛮女友”嘉佳，并由此展开一段浪漫爱情的故事。。