视频简介
在新疆北部山区的一个村子里，承包村里老油坊的农民毛玉胜偶然发现奄奄一息的母羊和小羊，眼看着已是深冬，两只羊几乎没有活下去的可能，于是毛玉胜将老母羊杀掉，同时带回了小山羊。他哪里知道，这两只羊正是国家一级保护动物——北山羊！他把这两只羊带回家，不仅引起了患有自闭症的儿子的兴趣，而且在未来的大舅哥和情人之间引起了轩然大波。未来的大舅哥葛保柱是现任村长，他对毛玉胜曾和他竞选村长一事一直耿耿于怀，借机将毛玉胜告上法院。不曾想毛玉胜当庭抖露出当年葛保柱和乡里干部们猎杀北山羊的事，于是，一场官司在这个小山村开审。在这个平静的小山村里，“人大还是羊大，官大还是民大，情大还是法大”这几个抽象而又具体的问题在人们心中掀起了波澜……。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].。
