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].。社工艾米丽·詹金斯（芮妮·齐薇格 Renée Zellweger 饰）做着单调、繁冗的工作，她每天要和不同的家庭打交道，处理他们的子女教育问题，结果得到的抱怨远远多于感谢。原本的38宗案件已经不堪重负，上司又将第39号案件安排给她。迫于责任，疲惫的艾米丽依旧驱车前往小女孩莉莉·沙利文（祖蒂·弗兰 Jodelle Ferland 饰）的家中。一如既往，艾米丽受到不友好地对待，在此之外，这个家庭的怪异气氛又让她倍感焦虑。有感于莉莉的孤独和无助，艾米丽更为主动地参与到这个案件中来。在一个残酷的虐待之夜，她和同事从莉莉的父母手中将小女孩成功解救。 一切似乎告一段落，一切又似乎刚刚开始……。故事讲述天真的穷小子阿拉丁（尼纳托·达沃力 Ninetto Davoli饰）爱上了一个女奴苏玛洛（伊娜丝·佩莱格里尼 Ines Pellegrini饰），成为她挑选的新主人。苏玛洛带他初尝性爱的快乐，并给他讲书上描述的各种情色故事。不久嫉妒的奴隶主抢走了苏玛洛，阿拉丁四处寻找着她，并在路上听到了旅行者们向他讲述的各自或悲情或浪漫的爱情故事。 由“后新现实主义时代”导演皮埃尔·保罗·帕索里尼执导的影片《一千零一夜》是帕索里尼“生命三部曲”的最后一部，前两部为《十日谈》和《坎特伯雷故事》。影片以正面肯定的方式对性爱民俗和同性恋加以描述，把阿拉伯民间故事集《一千零一夜》古老而传奇的故事搬上银幕。本片荣获1974年第27届戛纳电影节主竞赛单元-评审团大奖，并入围1974年第27届戛纳电影节主竞赛单元-金棕榈奖。。
