水易生

没考上大学，又被女友甩了的平太因帮助倒在地上的一女贼被连累关入监狱。在牢里认识一个自称是乞丐的神秘年轻人，出狱后两人成为朋友。乞丐告诉平太如何靠乞讨为生。一天夜里，两人来到妓院，遇到一个备受凌辱的少女，平太不忍少女继续过这种悲残的生活，和乞丐决定带少女逃出妓院，把她送回故乡。三人一路四处躲藏，历尽艰难，跋涉到海边，以为终于摆脱了追踪，却不料妓院老板带领打手早已埋伏在岸边悬崖下。平太和乞丐与对方展开了殊死搏斗，此时，躲在一边的少女不顾危险拼死上前劝解。少女哀婉的哭诉声打动了妓院老板，终于放了他们。平太和乞丐护送少女平安的回到了故乡，与母亲团聚。平太二人已过惯了飘泊的生活，谢绝了少女的苦苦捥留，又携手上路，开始了新的冒险漂流生涯。。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].。