主演：达纳·安德鲁斯 / 佩吉·卡敏斯 / 尼尔·麦吉尼斯 / Maurice Denham / 阿西妮·瑟伦 / Liam Redmond / Reginald Beckwith / Ewan Roberts / Brian Wilde / Richard Leech / Lloyd Lamble / Charles Lloyd Pack / Percy Herbert
导演：雅克·特纳
语言：英语
地区: 英国
编剧：查尔斯·贝内特 / 哈尔·E·切斯特 / M.R. James / 赛·恩菲尔德
类型：恐怖
上映时间：1957-12-17
别名：Curse of the Demon / 魔鬼的诅咒
用户标签：恐怖,英国,JacquesTourneur,Jacques_Tourneur,惊悚,1950s,雅克·特纳,1957
片长：95 分钟 / USA: 83 分钟(cut)
imdb编号：tt0050766
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].
这部57年的电影影响了无数影人：它是马丁斯科塞斯的11大恐怖片，更是山姆雷米的《堕入地狱》致敬对象。在RKO的vallewton调教后jacquestourneur将lewton式恐怖片发挥到了极致。虽打着魔鬼与巫术的噱头，但本片的视觉恐怖场景并不多，纯粹靠的是剧情的递进和悬念来制造恐惧感，十足大师范儿。
任何奇怪另类的剧本到了特纳手里他就能把它变成无以伦比的艺术品，从开篇魔鬼现身的雾与火的特效到大量表现主义的场景，主人公一步步走入到魔鬼的陷阱中，紧张与不安气氛充斥在影片的每一个细节中，中世纪的巫术在理性时代仍然疯狂施虐，无疑暗含着对二战悲剧的反思，集体无意识下的恐惧制造出吃人魔鬼
3.5minimallyakaDragMetoHell【BluRay】magnet:?xt=urn:btih:A15CE369805417F323C7B517302B03CC10047CFD英字-of-the-demon/english/823560中字
3.5星，恶魔太low，不露出恶魔的真容才是上策。高潮部分的火车戏剪辑的很精彩全片的最亮点。影片对后世的影响不必赘述但是个人感觉受这片影响最大的应该是柳条人。PS雅克.特纳是无可救药的猫控。。。
特纳好像就是心理恐怖，怪兽镜头是制片人自己加上去的，还是特摄片那种，特别呆哈哈哈哈。PresentedbyDarioArgentoinLocarno，Dario也很呆萌哈哈哈哈
氛围营造的很好，属于传东西定生死的较早鼻祖之一一个彻底的科学主义者试图揭示这些超自然现象都是骗子把戏，结果确实是有鬼哇，催眠术，猫变豹，飓风，无形脚印，冒气的云雾中的鬼。。。
巨石陣和怪獸(有朝天鼻的天狗!)是催化神祕氛圍的大功臣，但是與導演之前的作品相比，所有角色的設定與表演都太平面了，無法留下印象，或許這正是導演的意圖......
总体还行，悬念设置和氛围有点希区柯克的意思。只不过没法解决核心问题：魔法是否存在？于是扣子设置在把带有诅咒的纸条传递给反派本人。令电影本身的意义大打折扣。
雅克特纳后期的集大成之作，超一流的自然主义恐怖氛围营造得益于特纳法国身份对自然的热爱，特纳热爱电影的元素都在，它们完美协调与影片相得益彰。
7.5。堕入地狱的灵感竟然出自这里，除了特效有点僵，剧情、音效、节奏都控制的很好。那个年代的恐怖片都有些亦真亦假的悬疑气质。
恶魔是大怪兽！还是特摄style的大怪兽。不过这不是重点了。气氛和悬疑都很到位。短板是角色都很寡淡，还脸谱化。
影响了后世一大批巫术电影的先行者，氛围营造得很不错，恶魔的样子假了点，如果全程不出场，效果会更好，三星半。
