电影除暴故事原型

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].。在一座由蒸汽驱动的城市中，一家三口展开了一天的生活。母亲去制造炮弹的工厂上班，父亲在炮台担任装填手，小儿子在学校里学习与大炮相关的知识。炮台不停开炮，但敌人的身影却始终没有出现……。故事发生在位于罗斯克里克的一座矿业小镇上，艾玛（海莉·贝内特 Haley Bennett 饰）和丈夫马修（马特·波莫 Matt Bomer 饰）在这里过着与世无争的生活，某日，镇里的恶霸鲍勃（彼得·萨斯加德 Peter Sarsgaard 饰）枪杀了马修，没有人敢追究他的责任，只有幸存的艾玛在心里默默的发誓，一定要让鲍勃血债血偿。 艾玛雇佣了名为山姆（丹泽尔·华盛顿 Denzel Washington 饰）的赏金猎手，虽然她并没有多少钱能够付给她，但艾玛不幸的遭遇唤起了山姆内心里的正义感。为了对抗鲍勃和他的自卫队，山姆集结了一帮和他一样的边缘人士，他们不是恶棍就是赌徒，有的甚至还是杀人犯，但就是这样一帮怪咖，他们决定为了捍卫小镇的和平奋勇战斗。。